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Volume rendering

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Robert A. Drebin,

Loren Carpenter,

Pat HanrahanAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '88: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 65 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/54852.378484

Published: 01 June 1988 Publication History

Abstract

A technique for rendering images of volumes containing mixtures of materials is presented. The shading model allows both the interior of a material and the boundary between materials to be colored. Image projection is performed by simulating the absorption of light along the ray path to the eye. The algorithms used are designed to avoid artifacts caused by aliasing and quantization and can be efficiently implemented on an image computer. Images from a variety of applications are shown.

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Volume rendering
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision tasks
  2. Computer graphics

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SIGGRAPH '88: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

August 1988

356 pages

ISBN:0897912756

DOI:10.1145/54852

Editor:
Richard J. Beach
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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 22, Issue 4
Aug. 1988
330 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/378456
Editor:
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