Object-space parallel polygon rendering on hypercubes

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 487-503

  Kurç, Tahsin M ^a   Aykanat, Cevdet ^b   Özgüç, Bülent ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distributed memory; Hypercube; Multicomputers; Parallel; Polygon rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MERGING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

OBJECT-SPACE PARALLEL POLYGON RENDERING;

ANTI-ALIASING;

EID: 0032117756     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(98)00047-8     Document Type: Article

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