vlib: A Volume Graphics API
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This paper describes vlib, a generic application programming interface for volume graphics which supports many of the significant developments in the field to date. We present an overview of the interface and describe how its novel object modeling framework is able to facilitate a variety of modeling and rendering effects, including a method of achieving spatial deformation. We also discuss a volumetric ray-tracing algorithm for producing high quality images with a minimal memory overhead. The paper closes with some comments on our freeware implementation of the interface.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001