A Hybrid Ray Tracer for Rendering Polygon and Volume Data

Marc Levoy

First published in: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 10(2):33-40, March 1990

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	Figure 1. Overview of hybrid ray tracer for rendering polygon and volume data	Figure 2. Rendering of polygon embedded in volume data.
Figure 3. Color rendering of CT dataset and embedded polygons generated using hybrid raytracer.	Figure 4. (a) Detail from Figure 3 showing antialiasing. (b) Visualization of where rays were cast.	Figure 5. Color rendering of CT dataset and textured polygons, generated using modified hybrid ray tracer.
Figure 6. Color rendering of MR dataset with cutting planes, radiation treatment volume (purple), and treatment beams (red).	Biography