Tile-based level of detail for the parallel age

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1352-1359

  Niski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed; Geometry image; Level of detail; Out of core; Parallel

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL CONFIGURATIONS; RESOURCE UTILIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VOLUME RENDERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 35948966768     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70587     Document Type: Article

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