Efficient visibility encoding for dynamic illumination in direct volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 447-462

  Kronander, Joel ^a   Jönsson, Daniel ^a   Löw, Joakim ^a   Ljung, Patric ^b   Ynnerman, Anders ^a   Unger, Jonas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

precomputed radiance transfer; volume rendering; Volumetric illumination

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DOMAIN; BASIS FUNCTIONS; CURRENT TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ENVIRONMENT MAPS; GLOBAL VISIBILITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ISOTROPIC PHASE; LEVEL OF DETAIL; LOCAL REGION; LOW-FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; ONLINE COMPUTATIONS; PIECEWISE INTEGRATION; PRECOMPUTED RADIANCE TRANSFER; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPHERICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; VOLUME RENDERING;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 84855980914     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.35     Document Type: Article

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