Parallelizing a high accuracy hardware-assisted volume renderer for meshes with arbitrary polyhedra

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 101-106

  Bennett, J ^a,b   Cook, R ^a,b   Max, N ^a,b   May, D ^b   Williams, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84963567970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2001.964410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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