A distance field is a representation where, at each point within the field, we know the
distance from that point to the closest point on any object within the domain. In addition to …

Real-time visualization of large volume data sets demands high-performance computation,
pushing the storage, processing and data communication requirements to the limits of …

Several existing volume rendering algorithms operate by factoring the viewing
transformation into a 3D shear parallel to the data slices, a projection to form an intermediate …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

This paper describes VolumePro, the world's first single-chip realtime volume rendering
system for consumer PCs. VolumePro implements ray-casting with parallel slice-by-slice …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

Volume visualization is a method of extracting meaningful information from volumetric data
using interactive graphics and imaging. It is concerned with volume data representation …

In this work we present a method for speeding the process of volume animation. It exploits
coherency between consecutive images to shorten the path rays take through the volume …

We present Cube-4, a special-purpose volume rendering architecture that is capable of
rendering high-resolution (eg, 1024/sup 3/) datasets at 30 frames per second. The …

The paper discusses and experimentally compares distance based acceleration algorithms
for ray tracing of volumetric data with an emphasis on the Chessboard Distance (CD) voxel …