A sorting classification of parallel rendering

ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 Courses, SIGGRAPH Asia'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Molnar, Steven ^a   Cox, Michael ^b   Ellsworth, David ^a   Fuchs, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION COST; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FEED-FORWARD; PARALLEL RENDERING; PARALLEL RENDERING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL SOFTWARE; SCREEN SPACE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 67649842603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508044.1508079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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