Interactive ray tracing on commodity PC clusters state of the art and practical applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2790, Issue , 2004, Pages 499-508

  Wald, Ingo ^a   Benthin, Carsten ^a   Dietrich, Andreas ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DEGREE OF PARALLELISM; DISTRIBUTED RAY TRACING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; INTERACTIVE RATES; INTERACTIVE RAY TRACINGS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; STATE OF THE ART;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 35048867936     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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