The VolumePro real-time ray-casting system

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 251-260

  Pfister, Hanspeter ^a   Hardenbergh, Jan ^b   Knittel, Jim ^b   Lauer, Hugh ^b   Seiler, Larry ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Mitsubishi Electric   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Hardware systems; Rendering hardware; Rendering systems; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VOLUME RENDERING;

GRADIENT ESTIMATION; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE SYSTEM; MEMORY ORGANIZATIONS; PARAMETER ADJUSTMENTS; RENDERING HARDWARE; RENDERING PIPELINES; RENDERING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84883289259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/311535.311563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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