Accelerating Time-Varying Hardware Volume Rendering Using TSP Trees and Color-Based Error Metrics

2000 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, VV 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 119-129

  Shen, Han Wei ^b   Chiang, Ling Jen ^a   Ellsworth, David ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

graphics hardware; scalar field visualization; time varying fields; volume rendering; volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; ERRORS; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; HARDWARE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; SCALAR FIELD VISUALIZATIONS; TIME VARYING; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84954090678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VV.2000.10000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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