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Robert A. Drebin,

Loren Carpenter, and

Pat HanrahanAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 22, Issue 4

Pages 65 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/378456.378484

Published: 01 June 1988 Publication History

Abstract

A technique for rendering images of volumes containing mixtures of materials is presented. The shading model allows both the interior of a material and the boundary between materials to be colored. Image projection is performed by simulating the absorption of light along the ray path to the eye. The algorithms used are designed to avoid artifacts caused by aliasing and quantization and can be efficiently implemented on an image computer. Images from a variety of applications are shown.

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Volume rendering
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision tasks
  2. Computer graphics

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cover image ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 22, Issue 4

Aug. 1988

330 pages

ISSN:0097-8930

DOI:10.1145/378456

Editor:
Richard J. Beach
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA

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SIGGRAPH '88: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
August 1988
356 pages
ISBN:0897912756
DOI:10.1145/54852
Editor:
Richard J. Beach
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA

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