Exploiting frame coherence with the temporal depth buffer in a distributed computing environment

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, PVGS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 29-38

  Davis, Timothy A ^a   Davis, Edward W ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frame coherence; Object coherence; Parallel rendering; Temporal coherence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PIXELS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL RENDERING; RENDERING METHODS; RENDERING PROCESS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TEMPORAL COHERENCE;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 38349002031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/328712.319334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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