Efficient opacity specification based on feature visibilities in direct volume rendering

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2117-2126

  Wang, Yunhai ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jian ^a   Chen, Wei ^d   Zhang, Huai ^b   Chi, Xuebin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; OPACITY; SPECIFICATIONS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VOLUME RENDERING;

AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; MULTI DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TRANSFER FUNCTION DESIGNS; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 84860720105     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.02045.x     Document Type: Article

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