Efficient Space Leaping for Ray casting Architectures

2nd IEEE TCVG / Eurographics International Workshop on Volume Graphics, VG 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 149-161

  Meissner M ^a   Doggett, M ^a   Hirche, J ^a   Kanus, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b DD T GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Ray casting; Space leaping; Volume rendering accelerator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

COMPUTATION CYCLE; EMPTY SPACE; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; OCCUPANCY MAPS; RAY CASTING; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SPACE LEAPING; VOLUME RENDERING ACCELERATOR;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 85030646170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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