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Hierarchical splatting: a progressive refinement algorithm for volume rendering
Abstract
This paper presents a progressive refinement algorithm for volume rendering which uses a pyramidal volume representation. Besides storing average values, the pyramid stores estimated error, so an octtree can be fit to the pyramid given a user-supplied precision. This octtree is then drawn using a set of splats, or footprints, each scaled to match the size of the projection of a cell. The splats themselves are approximated with RGBA Gouraud-shaded polygons, so that they can be drawn efficiently on modern graphics workstations. The result is a real-time rendering algorithm suitable for interactive applications.
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Porter, T., & Duff, T. (1984) · Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques · doi:10.1145/800031.808606 · Cited by 1,164
Efficient ray tracing of volume data
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Footprint evaluation for volume rendering
Westover, L. (1990) · Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques · doi:10.1145/97879.97919 · Cited by 787
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Octrees for faster isosurface generation
Wilhelms, J., & Van Gelder, A. (1992) · ACM Transactions on Graphics · doi:10.1145/130881.130882 · Cited by 569
Footprint evaluation for volume rendering
Westover, L. (1990) · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · doi:10.1145/97880.97919 · Cited by 404
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- Authors
- Laur, D., & Hanrahan, P.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1991-07
- Pages
- 285-288
- OpenAlex
- W2100087065
- Cited by
- 375
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 11.39
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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