Scientific data is continually increasing in complexity, variety and size, making efficient
visualization and specifically rendering an ongoing challenge. Traditional rasterization …

This paper presents a real-time rendering pipeline for implicit surfaces defined by a regular
volumetric grid of samples. We use a ray-casting approach on current graphics hardware to …

We describe the software architecture of the Manta interactive ray tracer and describe its
application in engineering and scientific visualization. Although numerous ray tracing …

Recently developed interactive ray tracing systems combine the high performance of todays
CPUs with new algorithms and implementations to achieve a flexible and high-performance …

If we were to have a Grid infrastructure for visualization, what technologies would be needed
to build such an infrastructure, what kind of applications would benefit from it, and what …

Much progress has been made toward interactive ray tracing, but most research has focused
specifically on ray casting. A common approach is to use" packets" of rays to amortize cost …

With the tremendous advances in both hardware capabilities and rendering algorithms,
rendering performance is steadily increasing. Even consumer graphics hardware can render …

We present a technique for ray tracing isosurfaces of large compressed structured volumes.
Data is first converted into a lossless-compression octree representation that occupies a …

Research on realtime ray tracing has recently made tremendous advances. Algorithmic
improvements together with optimized software implementations already allow for interactive …

We introduce a parallel, distributed memory algorithm for volume rendering massive data
sets. The algorithm's scalability has been demonstrated up to 400 processors, rendering one …