In this paper we describe the extension of a parallel, distributed, direct volume renderer for use with a novel auto-stereoscopic display. We begin by briefly describing the target application of our research, radiation therapy planning, why we believe that stereoscopic viewing may be helpful for this, and the design of our DVR system. We then report on some of the problems we have encountered,...

A current goal in volume graphics is a volume rendering algorithm that provides an elegant and controllable tradeoff between image quality and rendering speed. In this report we propose a slice-based volume rendering algorithm which attempts to address this goal. We describe both the basic algorithm and several ways that it can operate in an incremental and an adaptive manner.

We describe a method for volume rendering using a spectral representation of colour instead of RGB. Full spectra allow the generation of physically correct rendering of a scene under different lighting conditions. To make the method practicable, a new low-dimension subspace method is used to act as the carrier of spectral information. To fully exploit spectra, we introduce the technique of post...