Opacity-weighted color interpolation for volume sampling

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, VVS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 135-142

  Wittenbrink, Craig M ^a   Malzbender, Thomas ^a   Goss, Michael E ^a,b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MS 3U4 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compositing; Ray tracing; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COLOR; EFFICIENCY; OPACITY; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM EFFICIENCY; ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION; COLOR INTERPOLATION; COMPOSITING; IMPROVED TECHNIQUES; MATERIAL-BASED; RMS ERRORS; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 85022108454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288126.288186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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