Real-time volume rendering
Arie E. Kaufman, Frank T. Dachille, Bo Chen, Ingmar Bitter, Kevin A. Kreeger, N. Zhang, Q. Tang · International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology · 2000
With the advent of high-powered, commodity volume visualization hardware comes a new challenge: effectively harnessing the visualization power to enable greater understanding of data through dynamic interaction. We examine Cube-4/VolumePro as the latest advance in real-time volume visualization hardware. We describe tools to utilize this hardware including a software developers' kit, called the Cube Toolkit (CTK). We show how the CTK supports algorithms such as perspective rendering, overlapping volumes, and geometry mixing within volumes. We examine a case study of a virtual colonoscopy application developed using the CTK.© 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 11, 44–52, 2000