Effects of VR system fidelity on analyzing isosurface visualization of volume datasets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 513-522

  Laha, Bireswar ^a   Bowman, Doug A ^a   Socha, John J ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D visualization; CAVE; data analysis; Immersion; micro CT; virtual environments; virtual reality; volume visualization

Indexed keywords

CAVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

3D VISUALIZATION; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; IMMERSION; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MICRO CT; STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY; TEXTURE BASED RENDERING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84897374677     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.20     Document Type: Article

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