RBF volume ray casting on multicore and manycore CPUs

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 71-80

  Knoll, Aaron ^a   Wald, Ingo ^b   Navratil, Paul ^a   Bowen, Anne ^a   Reda, Khairi ^c   Papka, Michael E ^d   Gaither, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); I.3.2 Computer Graphics : Graphics Systems Distributed network graphics; I.3.3 Computer Graphics : Picture Image Generation Line and curve generation; I.3.7 Computer Graphics : Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism Raytracing

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VOLUME RENDERING;

DESCRIPTORS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FEATURE RECONSTRUCTION; GRAPHICS SYSTEMS-DISTRIBUTED/NETWORK GRAPHICS; I.3.7 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM - RAYTRACING; LINE AND CURVE GENERATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION(RBF); RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84904439332     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12363     Document Type: Article

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