Ambient occlusion effects for combined volumes and tubular geometry

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 913-926

  Schott, Mathias ^a   Martin, Tobias ^b   Grosset, A V Pascal ^c   Smith, Sean T ^c   Hansen, Charles D ^c  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

ambient occlusion; stream tubes; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; APPROXIMATION SCHEME; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; GEOMETRIC OBJECTS; GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; SELF-INTERSECTIONS; STREAM TUBES;

INTERPOLATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VOLUME RENDERING;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84876158244     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.306     Document Type: Article

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