Parallel accelerated isocontouring for out-of-core visualization

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, PVGS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 97-104

  Bajaj, C L ^a   Pascucci, V ^a   Thompson, D ^a   Zhang, X Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATIC ANALYSIS;

ISO-CONTOURING; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; MULTIPLE LEVELS; OUT-OF-CORE COMPUTATION; OUT-OF-CORE VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; SECONDARY MEMORY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84875239417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/328712.319342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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