Cube-3: A Real-Time Architecture for High-Resolution Volume Visualization

This paper describes a high-performance special-purpose system, Cube-3, for displaying and manipulating highresolution volumetric datasets in real-time. A primary goal of Cube-3 is to render 5123, 16-bit per voxel, datasets at about 30 frames per second. Cube-3 implements a ray-casting algorithm in a highly-parallel and pipelined architecture, using a 3D skewed volume memory, a modular fast bus, 2D skewed bu ers, 3D interpolation and shading units, and a ray projection cone. Cube-3 will allow users to interactively visualize and investigate in real-time static 3D and dynamic 4D high-resolution volumetric datasets.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: VVS
• Authors: Hanspeter Pfister, Arie E. Kaufman, Tzi-cker Chiueh
• Keywords: Modular Fast Bus, Ray Projection Cone, Visualization, Volumetric Datasets, VVS 1995