Volume Rendering

• Overview of Volume Rendering
• Direct Volume Rendering: Ray-casting
• High-Quality Volume Graphics on Consumer PC Hardware (Kniss et.al.)
• Lecture notes in PDF
• ShearWarp Deluxe
• Shear-image RayCast
• Lacroute, Fast Volume Rendering Using a ShearWarp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation
• Levoy, Efficient RayTracing of Volume Data
• Meissner, A Practical Evaluation of Popular Volume Rendering Algorithm

• Raycast direct volume rendering using 3D graphics hardware
• Ambient Occlusion Volumes