Scalable interactive volume rendering using off-the-shelf components

Proceedings - IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 115-121

  Lombeyda, S ^a   Moll, L ^b   Shand, M ^b   Breen, D ^a   Heirich, A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Clos; cluster; OpenGL; parallel; ray casting; shadow mapping; shear warp; sort last; VIA; volume rendering; VolumePro

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963525894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2001.964412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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