Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadows

Parallel Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 311-323

  Isard, M ^a   Shand, M ^b   Heirich, A ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed rendering; OpenGL lighting; Sepia; Shadow maps

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; LIGHT SOURCES;

DISTRIBUTED RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0037366125     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(02)00248-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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