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Real-time BCC Volume Isosurface Ray Casting on the GPU  

Kim, Minho (School of Computer Science, University of Seoul)
Lee, Young-Joon (School of Computer Science, University of Seoul)
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Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society / v.18, no.4, 2012 , pp. 25-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a real-time GPU (graphics processing unit) ray casting scheme for rendering isosurfaces of BCC (body-centered cubic) volume datasets. A quartic spline field is built using the 7-direction box-spline filter accompanied with a quasi-interpolation prefilter. To obtain an interactive rendering speed on the graphics hardware, the shader code was optimized to avoid lookup table and conditional branches and to minimize data fetch overhead. Compared to previous implementations, our work outperforms the comparable one by more than 20% and the rendering quality is superior than others.
Keywords
GPU; Ray Casting; BCC Datasets; Box-Splines;
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