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CSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Direct Volume Rendering: A 3D Plotting Technique for Scientific Data
Direct volume rendering is an efficient method for plotting three dimensional scientific data. However, the technique is not as frequently used as it could be. In this article, we...
Steven P. Callahan, Jason H. Callahan, Carlos Edua...
ISVC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Fast Occlusion Sweeping
While realistic illumination significantly improves the visual quality and perception of rendered images, it is often very expensive to compute. In this paper, we propose a new al...
Mayank Singh, Cem Yuksel, Donald H. House
TVCG
2011
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13 years 3 months ago
A Comparison of Gradient Estimation Methods for Volume Rendering on Unstructured Meshes
—This paper presents a study of gradient estimation methods for rendering unstructured-mesh volume data. Gradient estimation is necessary for rendering shaded isosurfaces and spe...
Carlos D. Correa, Robert Hero, Kwan-Liu Ma
WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Valuation of variable annuity contracts with cliquet options in Asia markets
Variable annuities are very appealing to the investor. For example, in United States, sales volume on variable annuities grew to a record 184 billion in calendar year 2006. Howeve...
Ming-hua Hsieh
TOG
2010
134views more  TOG 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Unbiased, adaptive stochastic sampling for rendering inhomogeneous participating media
Realistic rendering of participating media is one of the major subjects in computer graphics. Monte Carlo techniques are widely used for realistic rendering because they provide u...
Yonghao Yue, Kei Iwasaki, Bing-Yu Chen, Yoshinori ...