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Principles

Volume rendering is a common technique used to visualize a scalar field given on a 3-D volumic mesh. The principle used here is to consider the volume as transparent with each internal point emitting light proportionally to the magnitude of the scalar. The principle is to visualize simultaneously all the volume values known on the mesh nodes.

Robert Fournier 2002-09-13