A Simple and Flexible Volume Rendering Framework for Graphics-Hardware-based Raycasting

Stegmaier, Simon; Strengert, Magnus; Klein, Thomas; Ertl, Thomas

A Simple and Flexible Volume Rendering Framework for Graphics-Hardware-based Raycasting

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187-195.pdf (3.47 MB)

Date

2005

Authors

Stegmaier, Simon
Strengert, Magnus
Klein, Thomas
Ertl, Thomas

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In this work we present a flexible framework for GPU-based volume rendering. The framework is based on a single pass volume raycasting approach and is easily extensible in terms of new shader functionality. We demonstrate the flexibility of our system by means of a number of high-quality standard and non-standard volume rendering techniques. Our implementation shows a promising performance in a number of benchmarks while producing images of higher accuracy than obtained by standard pre-integrated slice-based volume rendering.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VG/VG05/187-195
,
booktitle = {Volume Graphics 2005
},
editor = {Klaus Mueller and Thomas Ertl and Eduard Groeller
},
title = {{A Simple and Flexible Volume Rendering Framework for Graphics-Hardware-based Raycasting
}},
author = {Stegmaier, Simon and 
Strengert, Magnus and 
Klein, Thomas and 
Ertl, Thomas
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-8376
},
ISBN = {3-905673-26-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VG/VG05/187-195
}
}