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Lichtenbelt, 1997 - Google Patents

Design of a high performance volume visualization system

Lichtenbelt, 1997

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7315149040248899903
Author
Lichtenbelt B
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Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware

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Visunlizing three dimensional discrete datasets has been a topic of many research projects and papers in the past decade. We discuss the issues that come up when designing a whole computer system cnpable of visualizing these datasets in real time. We explain the three …
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