Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the
use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning …

Interactive volume rendering in its standard formulation has become an increasingly
important tool in many application domains. In recent years several advanced volumetric …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the
use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning …

The field of volume visualization has undergone rapid development during the past years,
both due to advances in suitable computing hardware and due to the increasing availability …

Volume raycasting techniques are important for both visual arts and visualization. They
allow an efficient generation of visual effects and the visualization of scientific data obtained …

Volumetric rendering is widely used to examine 3D scalar fields from CT/MRI scanners and
numerical simulation datasets. One key aspect of volumetric rendering is the ability to …

In this paper we present a volumetric lighting model, which simulates scattering as well as
shadowing in order to generate high quality volume renderings. By approximating light …

Volume models often show high depth complexity. This poses difficulties to the observer in
judging the spatial relationships accurately. Illustrators usually use certain techniques such …

Direct volume rendering has become a popular method for visualizing volumetric datasets.
Even though computers are continually getting faster, it remains a challenge to incorporate …