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Emphasizing Isosurface Embeddings in Direct Volume Rendering

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

    Shigeo Takahashi

  2. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokyo, 110-0015, Japan

    Yuriko Takeshima

  3. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, 112-8610, Japan

    Issei Fujishiro

  4. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA

    Gregory M. Nielson

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  1. Lab. LMC-IMAG, Universite Grenoble I, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble CX 9, France

    Georges-Pierre Bonneau

  2. Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS), University of Stuttgart, Universitätßtraße 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Thomas Ertl

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-8809, USA

    Gregory M. Nielson

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Takahashi, S., Takeshima, Y., Fujishiro, I., Nielson, G.M. (2006). Emphasizing Isosurface Embeddings in Direct Volume Rendering. In: Bonneau, GP., Ertl, T., Nielson, G.M. (eds) Scientific Visualization: The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30790-7_12

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