Volume rendering

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In scientific visualization and computer graphics, volume rendering is a set of techniques used to display a 2D projection of a 3D discretely sampled data set, typically a 3D scalar field.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Volume rendering”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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