Interactive Volume Rendering on Standard PC Graphics Hardware Using Multi-Textures and Multi-Stage Rasterization
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2000
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Interactive direct volume rendering has yet been restricted to high-end graphics workstations and special-purpose hardware, due to the large amount of trilinear interpolations, that are necessary to obtain high image quality. Implementations that use the 2D-texture capabilities of standard PC hardware, usually render object-aligned slices in order to substitute trilinear by bilinear interpolation. However the resulting images often contain visual artifacts caused by the lack of spatial in terpolation.In this paper we propose new rendering techniques that significantly improve both performance and image quality of the 2D-texture based approach. We will show how multi-texturing capabilities of modern consumer PC graphbicosards are exploited to enable in teractive high quality volume visualization on low-cost hardware. Furthermore we demonstrate how multi-stage rasterization hardware can be used to eĆciently render shaded isosurfaces and to compute diffuse illumination for semi-transparent volume rendering at interactive frame rates.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:EGGH/EGGH00/109-118,
booktitle = {SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware},
editor = {I. Buck and G. Humphreys and P. Hanrahan},
title = {{Interactive Volume Rendering on Standard PC Graphics Hardware Using Multi-Textures and Multi-Stage Rasterization}},
author = {Rezk-Salama, C. and Engel, K. and Bauer, M. and Greiner, G. and Ertl, T.},
year = {2000},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-3471},
ISBN = {1-58113-257-3},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH00/109-118}
}