Interactive volume rendering on a multicomputer

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

Volumn Part F129616, Issue , 1992, Pages 87-93

  Neumann, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MESSAGE PASSING; PIXELS; VLSI CIRCUITS; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMMERCIAL GRAPHICS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; DISTRIBUTED RENDERING; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; INTERACTIVE MANIPULATION; INTERACTIVE VOLUME RENDERINGS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84947658824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/147156.147170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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