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Cube-4-a scalable architecture for real-time volume rendering

Pfister et al., 1996

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11420633832074056914
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Pfister H
Kaufman A
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Proceedings of 1996 Symposium on Volume Visualization

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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 underlying algorithm, called slice-parallel ray-casting, uses tri-linear interpolation of samples …
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