Accelerated volume graphics
Arie E. Kaufman · 2003
This paper introduces the field of volume visualization, volumetric data representations, and volume rendering algorithms. It further discusses volume graphics and its underlying voxelization algorithms. Special-purpose volume rendering architectures have been researched for over two decades. Recently, commercial real-time volume rendering boards have been introduced, most notably the VolumePro board which is based on the Cube-4 architecture developed at Stony Brook University.