Implementations of Cube-4 on the Teramac custom computing machine

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-208

  Kanus, U ^a   Meissner M ^a   Strasser W ^a   Pfister, H ^b   Kaufman, A ^b   Amerson, R ^c   Carter, R J ^c   Culbertson, B ^c   Kuekes, P ^c   Snider, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CUBE 4 VOLUME RENDERING ARCHITECTURE; HARDWARE SIMULATOR; TERAMAC CUSTOM COMPUTING MACHINE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0031098498     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0097-8493(96)00083-0     Document Type: Article

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