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Raytracing irregular volume data

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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 24, Issue 5

Pages 35 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/99308.99316

Published: 01 November 1990 Publication History

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An efficient technique is described for rendering volume data which is not organized as a regular, three-dimensional grid. The algorithm works on collections of convex cells with shared faces. Datasets of this form are quite common in such applications as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Modeling (FEM).

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ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 24, Issue 5

Nov. 1990

103 pages

ISSN:0097-8930

DOI:10.1145/99308

Editor:
Nick England

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VVS '90: Proceedings of the 1990 workshop on Volume visualization
November 1990
112 pages
ISBN:0897914171
DOI:10.1145/99307
Chairman:
Nick England

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Association for Computing Machinery

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