Volume rendering on scalable shared-memory MIMD Architectures

Proceedings of the 1992 Workshop on Volume Visualization, VVS 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 17-24

  Nieh, Jason ^a   Levoy, Marc ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMIC OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; EARLY RAY TERMINATION; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHMS; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SILICON GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33747969162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/147130.147141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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