title: A survey of architectures for volume rendering.
abstract: Five hardware architectures for volume rendering, which requires efficiently handling a huge amount of volumetric data, are surveyed, categorized, and compared. They are Cube, Insight, PARCUM, Voxel Processor, and 3DP. General-purpose graphics systems that exploit their surface-based geometry engine to reduce the computational burden of the rendering process are briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bakalash
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yagel