Scalable isosurface visualization of massive datasets on COTS clusters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 51-58

  Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Bajaj, C ^a   Blanke, W ^b  

^a TICAM   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Metabuffer; Multi resolution; Parallel and Out of core Isocontouring; Parallel Rendering; Progressive mesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963620257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2001.964404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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