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Architectures for real-time volume rendering

Pfister, 1999

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16243116831139354772
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Pfister H
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Future generation computer systems

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Over the last decade, volume rendering has become an invaluable visualization technique for a wide variety of applications. This paper reviews three special-purpose architectures for interactive volume rendering: texture mapping, VIRIM, and VolumePro. Commercial …
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