1. A method for visualizing a digital medical image, said method comprising the steps of: providing an image with a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a 3-dimensional space; selecting a point in the domain of the image; propagating a plurality of rays from said selected point to a virtual display screen that surrounds the selected point, wherein said virtual display screen comprises a plurality of pixels, and the value associated with each pixel is computed along the path of each ray through the image domain; generating a panoramic digital photograph from said virtual display screen; and providing said panoramic digital photograph to an interactive display application.