May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
982 pages
22h 42m
English
Volume rendering is a special class of rendering algorithms that allows us to portray fuzzy phenomena, such as smoke. There are numerous algorithms for volume rendering. To start our quest, we will focus on the simplest method called 3D texture slicing. This method approximates the volume-density function by slicing the dataset in front-to-back or back-to-front order and then blends the proxy slices using hardware-supported blending. Since it relies on the rasterization hardware, this method is very fast on the modern GPU.
The pseudo code for view-aligned 3D texture slicing is as follows:
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