Hardware accelerated volume visualization on PC clusters [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Marcelo Eduardo Magallón Gherardelli

Hardware Accelerated Volume Visualization onPC ClustersVon der Fakultät Informatik, Elektrotechnik undInformationstechnik der Universität Stuttgartzur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktors derNaturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) genehmigte AbhandlungVorgelegt vonMarcelo Eduardo Magallón Gherardelliaus SantiagoHauptberichter: Prof. Dr. T. ErtlMitberichter: Prof. Dr. H. RuderTag der mündlichen Prüfung: 5.3.2004Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systemeder Universität Stuttgart2004“He’s in love,” said Gaspode. “It’s very tricky.”— Terry Pratchett, Moving PicturesFür Katrin.AcknowledgementsThis work would not have come to existence without the support of a lot of people. First andforemost my adviser, Thomas Ertl, who always provided me the confidence to try and explorenew ideas, and who gave the word “Doktorvater” a meaning beyond “thesis supervisor”. ToHans Ruder, who in many occasions provided me with the support to make this work real. Iam grateful to all the people I had the pleasure to work and share a life with during my four-year stay in Germany. To Matthias Hopf — one of the first people I met at the Visualization andInteractive Systems section at the University of Stuttgart — we shared many hours of fruitful andnot-so-fruitful discussion, which directly influenced many of the ideas expressed in this work.