Volume Graphics 2001

Volume Rendering.- Refraction in Discrete Raytracing.- Data Level Comparison of Surface Classification and Gradient Filters.- Splatting with Shadows.- A Study of Transfer Function Generation for Time-Varying Volume Data.- Volume-Based Modeling.- Volume Graphics Modeling of Ice Thawing.- A Survey of Methods for Volumetric Scene Reconstruction from Photographs.- A Volume Modeling Component of CAD.- A Technique for Volumetric CSG Based on Morphology.- Hardware, Architectures, and API's for Volume Rendering.- vlib: A Volume Graphics API.- Efficient Space Leaping for Raycasting Architectures.- An Architecture for Interactive Tetrahedral Volume Rendering.- Parallelizing the ZSWEEP Algorithm for Distributed-Shared Memory Architectures.- Data Acquisition.- Hybrid Distance Field Computation.- Visualization of Labeled Segments Cross-Contour Surfaces.- Topology-Guided Downsampling.- Extracting Boundary Surface of Arbitrary Topology from Volumetric Datasets.- Segmentation of Biological Volume Datasets Using a Level-Set Framework.- Correction of Voxelization Artifacts by Revoxelization.- Acceleration Methods for Volume Rendering.- Image-Based Rendering of Surfaces from Volume Data.- Accelerating Voxel-Based Terrain Rendering with Keyframe-Free Image-Based Rendering.- Hierarchichal Perspective Volume Rendering Using Triangle Fans.- Two-Pass Image and Volume Rotation.- Applications and Case Studies.- Volume Visualization of Payoff Regions for Derivatives Risk Management.- EXOMIO: A 3D Simulator for External Beam Radiotherapy.- Real-Time Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Translucent and Opaque Direct Volume Rendering for Virtual Endoscopy Applications.- A Framework to Visualize and Interact with Multimodal Medical Images.- Authors Index.- Color Plates.