Developing a practical parallel multi-pass renderer in Java and C++: Toward a grande application in Java

ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 126-133

  Yamauchi, Hitoshi ^a,c   Maeda, Atusi ^a,d   Kobayashi, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTI-PASS RENDERING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0034593378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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