CudaHull: Fast parallel 3D convex hull on the GPU

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 265-271

  Stein, Ayal ^a   Geva, Eran ^a   El Sana, Jihad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Convex hull; CUDA programming; GPU processing; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CONVEX HULL; CUDA PROGRAMMING; EXTREME POINTS; GPU PROCESSING; INTERNAL POINTS; PARALLEL PROCESSING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 84859745898     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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