Semi-automatic generation of transfer functions for direct volume rendering

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Semi-automatic generation of transfer functions for direct volume rendering

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Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization table of contents

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States

Pages: 79 - 86

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-105-4

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Gordon Kindlmann	Department of Computer Scince, University of Utah, Salt lake City and Program of Computer Graptics, Cornell University
James W. Durkin	Program of Computer Graptics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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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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