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The CUBE workstation —a 3-D voxel-based graphics environment

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TheCUBE workstation is a 3-D versatile graphics system centered around a largecubic frame-buffer ofvoxels. A softwarebased prototype has been integrated on a SUN workstation with a 6-D Polhemus input device. The user interacts directly with the geometric objects and the voxel images, employing inherent 3-D interactive tools. A reduced-resolution hardware prototype has been built and has been running in real-time. The cubic frame buffer is uniquely organized for parallel beam access by three processors which input sampled and synthetic images, manipulate, project, and render them. Projections are speeded-up by a special bus which selects along a beam in onlylog time.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant DCR-86-03603

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Kaufman, A. The CUBE workstation —a 3-D voxel-based graphics environment. The Visual Computer 4, 210–221 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01887593

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