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Everything about Volume rendering
Representing a 3D-modeled object or dataset as a 2D projection
In scientific visualization and computer graphics, volume rendering is a set of techniques used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set, typically a 3D scalar field. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Volume renderingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Fast Neural Representations for Direct Volume RenderingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: InfernoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Volume renderingCited 1,004 times
- Go sideways: Volume ray castingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Rendering (computer graphics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Volume rendering
Optical models for direct volume rendering
Footprint evaluation for volume rendering
Inverse volume rendering with material dictionaries
Fourier volume rendering
Topology-Controlled Volume Rendering
Volume illustration: nonphotorealistic rendering of volume models
Volume rendering by adaptive refinement
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
InfernoDante Alighieri · 1767
MoraliaPlutarch · 1500
American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
Philosophical WorksRené Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane · 1967
New readings & new renderings of Shakespeare's tragediesHenry Halford Vaughan · 1878
3D gamesAlan H. Watt, Fabio Policarpo · 2000
Production volume renderingMagnus Wrenninge · 2012- 📕V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max 2020Jamie Cardoso · 2021
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