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Hardware assisted fast volume rendering with boundary enhancement

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In this paper, a new volume rendering method with boundary enhancement is presented. The boundary is extracted and represented by surfaces explicitly. Then, using 3D texture mapping and graphics acceleration hardware, the volume data can be rendered with controllable boundary shading effect almost in real time. Test shows that this method is 4–5 times faster than the previous methods. Moreover, it can also be extended to render the surfaces and the volumetric data together interactively.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Tong Xin & Tang Zesheng

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Tong Xin received his M.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 1996. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. His research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization.

Tang Zesheng is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, computational geometry and CAD technology.

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Tong, X., Tang, Z. Hardware assisted fast volume rendering with boundary enhancement. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 13, 393–401 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948497

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