Accelerating volume rendering with texture hulls

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 115-122

  Li, Wei ^a   Kaufman, A ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

2D texture based volume rendering; bounding shapes; contour simplification; empty space skipping; Graphics hardware; texture hulls

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

2D TEXTURES; BOUNDING SHAPES; CONTOUR SIMPLIFICATION; EMPTY SPACE SKIPPING; GRAPHICS HARDWARE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84964522764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWG.2002.1226517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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