OpenGL volumizer: A toolkit for high quality volume rendering of large data sets

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 45-53

  Bhanirantka, P ^a   Demange, Y ^a  

^a SGI   (United States)

Author keywords

clip textures; large data; texture mapping; volume visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LARGE DATA; LARGE DATA VISUALIZATION; LARGE VOLUMETRIC DATA; SCALABLE VISUALIZATION; TEXTURE MAPPING; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84964507776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWG.2002.1226509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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