Efficient parallel out-of-core isosurface extraction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 9-16

  Zhang, H ^a   Newman, T S ^a  

^a University of Alabama ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Chromium; Computational geometry; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Data mining; Data structures; Data visualization; Isosurfaces; Solid modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CHROMIUM; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXTRACTION; VISUALIZATION;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; ISO SURFACE; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; REDUNDANT COMPUTATION; SOLID MODEL; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; TIME AND SPACE PERFORMANCE;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84947296961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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