Real-time volume graphics

ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Course Notes, SIGGRAPH 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Engel, Klaus ^a   Hadwiger, Markus ^b   Kniss, Joe M ^c   Lefohn, Aaron E ^d   Salama, Christof Rezk ^e   Weiskopf, Daniel ^f  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARDWARE; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; CONSUMER GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; MEDICAL VOLUME DATUM; PARTICIPATING MEDIA; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARES; TEXTURE BASED APPROACHES; TRANSFER FUNCTION DESIGNS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84983179894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1103900.1103929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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