Parallel volume rendering on a single-chip SIMD architecture

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 107-113

  Meissner M ^a   Grimm, S ^a   Strassr W ^a   Packer, J ^b   Latimer, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ClearSpeed Technology Plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parallel Processing; Ray Casting; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963548486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2001.964411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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