Volume Rendering by Adaptive Refinement

Marc Levoy

First published in: The Visual Computer, 6(1):2-7, Feb 1990

© Copyright 1990. Reproduced with permission of Springer-Verlag.


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Figure 1. Overview of adaptive volume rendering algorithm.

Figure 2. Relationship between voxel array and viewing rays

Figure 3. Adaptively refined volume rendering of cytochrome
Figure 4. Visualization of where rays were cast to generate Fig. 3.
Figure 5. Adaptively refined volume rendering of head - first frame.
Figure 6. Adaptively refined volume rendering of head - fourth frame

Table 1. Performance statistics for cytochrome.
Table 2. Performance statistics for head

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