Extinction-based shading and illumination in gpu volume ray-casting

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1795-1802

  Schlegel, Philipp ^a   Makhinya, Maxim ^a   Pajarola, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambient Occlusion; Exponential Extinction; GPU Ray Casting; Shadows; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ILLUMINATIONS; AMBIENT OCCLUSION; COLOR BLEEDING; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; DISCRETIZATIONS; EXPONENTIAL EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FRAME RATE; ILLUMINATION MODELS; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LIGHTING EFFECTS; RAYCASTING; SHADOWS; SOFT SHADOW; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS;

BLENDING; USER INTERFACES;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 80855132135     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.198     Document Type: Article

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