@inproceedings{hesser1995three,
  title={Three architectures for volume rendering},
  author={Hesser, J{\"u}rgen and Manner, Reinhard and Knittel, G{\"u}nter and Stra{\ss}er, Wolfgang and Pfister, Hanspeter and Kaufman, Arie},
  booktitle={Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume={14},
  number={3},
  pages={111--122},
  year={1995},
  organization={Wiley Online Library},
  abstract={Volume rendering is a key technique in scientific visualization that lends itself to significant exploitable parallelism. The high computational demands of real-time volume rendering and continued technological advances in the area of VLSl give impetus to the development of special-purpose volume rendering architectures. This paper presents and characterizes three recently developed volume rendering engines which are based on the ray-casting method. A taxonomy of the algorithmic variants of ray-casting and details of ...}
}