Sort-first parallel volume rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1164-1177

  Moloney, Brendan ^a   Ament, Marco ^b   Weiskopf, Daniel ^b   Möller, Torsten ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dynamic load balancing; early ray termination; ray coherence; shadow; sort first parallelization; visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; EARLY RAY TERMINATION; GPU CLUSTERS; IMPROVED METHODS; PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; PARALLELIZATIONS; RAY COHERENCE; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; SHADOW; SHADOWING TECHNIQUES; SORT-LAST; SPEED-UPS; TEST RESULTS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC LOADS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 79958850128     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.116     Document Type: Article

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