Parallel volume ray-casting for unstructured-grid data on distributed-memory architectures

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Parallel volume ray-casting for unstructured-grid data on distributed-memory architectures

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 23 - 30

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-774-1

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Kwan-Liu Ma

Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, Mail Stop 132C, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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