Fast volume rendering using a shear-warp factorization of the viewing transformation

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 451-458

  Lacroute, Philippe ^a   Levoy, Marc ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Medical imaging; Scientific visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA VISUALIZATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FACTORIZATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; METADATA; SIGNAL ENCODING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VOLUME RENDERING;

FAST VOLUME RENDERING; INTERMEDIATE IMAGE; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; RUN-LENGTH ENCODING; SHEAR-WARP FACTORIZATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL DATA STRUCTURE; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85027175346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192161.192283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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