VolumePro Product page at TeraRecon (gen3 is still made, but not marketed externally)
VolumePro Timeline - Started as a research project at MERL, then spun out to RTViz and then aquired by TeraRecon. We are working on the 3rd generation ASIC.
H. Pfister, J. Hardenbergh, J. Knittel, H. Lauer, and L. Seiler. The volumepro real-time ray-casting system. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, pages 251--260, August 1999. MERL TechReport and SIGGRAPH99 Paper DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/311535.311563
The VolumePro 1000 was described in a paper at I3D by Yin Wu, Hugh Lauer, et al.
Wu, Y., Bhatia, V., Lauer, H., and Seiler, L. 2003. Shear-image order ray casting volume rendering. In Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on interactive 3D Graphics (Monterey, California, April 27 - 30, 2003).
SI3D '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 152-162. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/641480.641510
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Front to Back blending is possible with a buffer to accumulate alpha. The normal back to front blending: ColorAccum = (1 - OpacityNew)*ColorAccum + ColorNew OpacityAccum = (1 - OpacityNew)*OpacityAccum + OpacityNew Front to Back ColorAccum = (1 - OpacityAccum)*ColorNew + ColorAccum OpacityAccum = (1 - OpacityAccum)*OpacityNew + OpacityAccum from: A coherent projection approach for direct volume rendering. Jane Wilhelms (R.I.P. 2005), Allen Van Gelder: SIGGRAPH 1991: 275-284
Whiz kids wanted. What are there so few Pythagorean solids? If you understand the question, let me know.
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