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SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
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PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
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VVS '94 Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on Volume visualization
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Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
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Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A High Accuracy Volume Renderer for Unstructured Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Computing in Science and Engineering
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Dagstuhl '97, Scientific Visualization
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VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
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VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
Geometric clipping using boolean textures
VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
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EUROVIS'06 Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
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While scientific visualization systems share many requirements with other graphical applications, they also pose special requirements that make solutions based on standard rendering hardware or software not entirely satisfactory. This paper illustrates those requirements by describing the renderer used in a production scientific visualization system, Data Explorer [1].We begin by setting forth the requirements for a visualization renderer derived from our experiences. We then describe implementation techniques used to meet the requirements of parallelism, volume rendering of irregular data, clipping, and integration of rendering modalities. The renderer described is a software renderer, but it is hoped that the requirements and implementation described here might influence the design of future generations of rendering hardware.