A compact volume rendering accelerator

Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on Volume Visualization, VVS 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 67-74

  Knittel, Günter ^a   Straßer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMIC COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; GENERATION RATE; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; INTEGRAL PART; PERSPECTIVE PROJECTIONS; RENDERING PIPELINES; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 84947804460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/197938.197968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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