A simple and flexible volume rendering framework for graphics-hardware-based raycasting
Simon Stegmaier, Magnus Strengert, Thomas Klein, Thomas Ertl · 2005
In this work we present a flexible framework for GPU-based volume rendering. The framework is based on a single pass volume raycasting approach and is easily extensible in terms of new shader functionality. We demonstrate the flexibility of our system by means of a number of high-quality standard and non-standard volume rendering techniques. Our implementation shows a promising performance in a number of benchmarks while producing images of higher accuracy than obtained by standard pre-integrated slice-based volume rendering.