About the influence of illumination models on image comprehension in direct volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1922-1931

  Lindemann, Florian ^a   Ropinski, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

spatial comprehension; volume rendering; Volumetric illumination

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; GRADIENT BASED; ILLUMINATION MODELS; IMAGE COMPREHENSION; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; RENDERED IMAGES; SHADOW VOLUME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL COMPREHENSION; SPATIAL PERCEPTION; SPHERICAL HARMONIC LIGHTING; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TESTING PERFORMANCE; USER STUDY; VOLUMETRIC ILLUMINATION;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 80855130044     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.161     Document Type: Article

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