We have developed a technique based on back to front composition of textured slices for efficiently rendering shaded semi-transparent volumes. The technique does not require pre-computation, and directly works on a rectilinear scalar volume. This video demonstrates the technique with the interactive inspection on a standard PC of the Visible Human Male Head CT dataset.
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