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

Diffusion filter

• Weickert book
• http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/weickert/Papers/book.pdf
• Vessel Enhancing Diffusion Filter
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.936&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• http://www2.wiau.man.ac.uk/caws/Conferences/26/online_proceedings/papers/93/ved-color.pdf
• ITK Implementation: http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/163
• Template Image Processing Library
• http://tipl.labsolver.org/home
• Perona Malik
• http://www.sci.utah.edu/~gerig/CS7960-S2010/materials/Perona-Malik/
• Finite Difference Method
• http://ltl.iams.sinica.edu.tw/document/training_lectures/2006/SH_Chen/Finite_Difference_Methods.pdf
• Lecture on diffusion filtering
• http://campar.in.tum.de/twiki/pub/Chair/TeachingSs04ImageSeg/VL_Segmentierung_kap8.pdf
• Note that Perona-Malik filter should not be classified as anisotropic, it should be isotropic non-linear instead

GPU Programming

Memory transfer: http://wiki.accelereyes.com/wiki/index.php?title=GPU_Memory_Transfer
CUDA introduction: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/207200659
CUDA as a service or accessed from remote desktop

• http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=93450
• or use TCC driver with some limitations (no OpenGL/DirectX support, not all devices are supported) ... 
• http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysinternals/Session0Changes.mspx
• Because Session 0 is no longer a user session, services that are running in Session 0 do not have access to the video driver. This means that any attempt that a service makes to render graphics fails. Querying the display resolution and color depth in Session 0 reports the correct results for the system up to a maximum of 1920x1200 at 32 bits per pixel.

CUDA Training Resources: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_training.html

How to create CUDA project on VS2008 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2046228/how-do-i-start-a-new-cuda-app-in-visual-studio-2008

How to set Visual Assist X to handle new file extensions: http://www.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5481

GPU-based Effects on WPF

MFC message loop and WM_QUIT

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/02/22/378018.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_core_idle_loop_processing.asp

XML

Valid XML characters: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets

Visual Studio Compiler Intrinsics

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/26td21ds.aspx

Mercurial

http://hginit.com/top/index.html

Aliasing symbol names during Link time

Reference: see  VC/crt/src/crtdll.c

  /*
  * _pRawDllMain MUST be an extern const variable, which will be aliased to
  * _pDefaultRawDllMain if no real user definition is present, thanks to the
  * alternatename directive.
  */

extern BOOL (WINAPI * const _pRawDllMain)(HANDLE, DWORD, LPVOID);
extern BOOL (WINAPI * const _pDefaultRawDllMain)(HANDLE, DWORD, LPVOID) = NULL;
#if defined (_M_IX86)
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:__pRawDllMain=__pDefaultRawDllMain")
#elif defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64)
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:_pRawDllMain=_pDefaultRawDllMain")
#else  /* defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64) */
#error Unsupported platform
#endif  /* defined (_M_IA64) || defined (_M_AMD64) */

Example:

1. Inside a static lib A, put the following

extern "C" int xxx = 2;

2. Inside an EXE which links A, put the following

extern "C" int a = 4;
#pragma comment(linker, "/alternatename:_xxx=_a")

In this case "xxx" will be resolved as 2. Now how if we remove the line inside static-lib A. In this case the linker will replace "xxx" with "a", which is equal to 4.


BTW, don't forget to put addition "_" in front of symbol name inside #pragma comment directives. It is necessary to follow "C" name decoration. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/deaxefa7.aspx.

Coding Standard

http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html

boost::spirit

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/924642/boost-spirit-headers-deprecated