Exploring a Boeing 777: Ray tracing large-scale CAD data

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 36-46

  Dietrich, Andreas ^a   Stephen, Abe ^b   Wald, Ingo ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Large model visualization; Parallel rendering; Ray tracing; Real time rendering

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VOLUME RENDERING;

MASSIVE-MODEL RENDERING; PARALLEL RENDERING; RASTERIZATION; REAL-TIME RENDERING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 37549059187     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2007.147     Document Type: Article

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