Towards real-time visualization of detailed neural tissue models: View frustum culling for parallel rendering

IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization 2012, BioVis 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-32

  Hernando, Juan B ^a   Schürmann, Felix ^b   Pastor, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cortical neuron simulation visualization; view frustum culling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDING VOLUME; BRAIN RESEARCH; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CORTICAL NEURONS; DATA COMPLEXITY; DATA SIZE; DETAILED MODELS; GPU PROCESSING; NEURAL TISSUE; NEURAL TISSUE MODELS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL RENDERING; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS; VIEW FRUSTUM CULLING; VISUAL ATTRIBUTES; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TISSUE; TRANSPARENCY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84872260706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioVis.2012.6378589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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