A hardware-assisted hybrid rendering technique for interactive volume visualization

Proceedings - IEEE / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002, VolVis 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 123-130

  Wilson, B ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   McCormick, P S ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

interactive visualization; large data visualization; point based rendering; texture graphics hardware; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARDWARE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LARGE DATA VISUALIZATION; POINT-BASED RENDERING; SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84964467837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWG.2002.1226518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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