A shader-based parallel rendering framework

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-

  Allard, Jérémie ^a   Raffin, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed Rendering; Shaders; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTERS;

NETWORK LOAD; PIXELS; TEXTURE SWITCHES; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33749446061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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