Visualizing the positional and geometrical variability of isosurfaces in uncertain scalar fields

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 951-960

  Pfaffelmoser, Tobias ^a   Reitinger, Matthias ^a   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

GEOMETRICAL UNCERTAINTY; PROBABILITY COMPUTATIONS; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SPATIAL DEVIATION; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; SURFACE NORMALS; VIEWING DIRECTIONS; VOLUME RAY CASTING;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84055167321     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01944.x     Document Type: Article

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