Hardware-Accelerated Volume Rendering
HANSPETER PFISTER, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
11.1 Introduction
Over the last decade, volume rendering has become an invaluable visualization technique for a wide variety of applications in medicine, biotechnology, engineering, astrophysics, and other sciences. Examples include visualization of 3D sampled medical data (CT, MRI), seismic data from oil and gas exploration, and computed finite element models. While volume rendering is very popular, the lack of interactive frame rates has long limited its widespread use. Fortunately, advances in graphics hardware have lead to interactive and even real-time volume rendering performance, even on personal computers.
High frame rates are ...
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