Moderne Volumenvisualisierung Modern Volume Visualization

Over the last decade, volume rendering has become an invaluable visualization technique for a wide variety of applications. In this paper, we discuss modern, hardware-accelerated methods for the visualization of volume datasets; ray casting, texture slicing, shear-warp and shea-image rendering and splatting. Information Technology 2004 This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright c ©Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., 2004 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139