Lecture 20

The Transfer Function Bake-Off. Hanspeter Pfister, William E. Lorensen, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Gordon L. Kindlmann, William J. Schroeder, Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Ken Martin, Raghu Machiraju, Jinho Lee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21(3): 16-22 (2001).
Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 8(3): 270-285 (2002).
The original paper was Best Paper, Vis 2001: Interactive Volume Rendering Using Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions and Direct Manipulation Widgets. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen. IEEE Visualization, pp. 255-262, 2001.

Curvature-Based Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering: Methods and Applications. Gordon L. Kindlmann, Ross T. Whitaker, Tolga Tasdizen, Torsten Möller. IEEE Visualization, pp. 513-520, 2003.
Local Histograms for Design of Transfer Functions in Direct Volume Rendering. Claes Lundström, Patric Ljung, Anders Ynnerman. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12(6): 1570-1579 2006.
Volume Illustration: Nonphotorealistic Rendering of Volume Models. Penny Rheingans, David S. Ebert. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 7(3): 253-264 (2001)