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The k-buffer and its applications to volume rendering

Callahan, 2005

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Callahan S
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Harvesting the power of modern graphics hardware to solve the complex problem of real- time rendering of large unstructured meshes is a major research goal in the volume visualization community. Although for regular grids texture-based techniques are well suited …
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