A simple and flexible volume rendering framework for graphics-hardware-based raycasting

Authors:
Simon Stegmaier;Magnus Strengert;Thomas Klein;Thomas Ertl
Affiliations:
Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart;Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart;Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart;Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart
Venue:
VG'05 Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Volume Graphics
Year:
2005

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Abstract

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.