SLIC: Scheduled linear image compositing for parallel volume rendering

PVG 2003, Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 33-40

  Stompel, A ^a   Ma, K L ^a   Lum, E B ^a   Ahrens, J ^b   Patchett, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm design and analysis; Clustering algorithms; Computer graphics; Concurrent computing; Hardware; High performance computing; Partitioning algorithms; Pixel; Rendering (computer graphics); Software algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; CONCURRENT COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84947278426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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