RenderAnts: Interactive Reyes Rendering on GPUs

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Zhou, Kun ^a   Hou, Qiming ^b   Guo, Baining ^b   Ren, Zhong ^c   Gong, Minmin ^c   Sun, Xin ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

dynamic scheduling; feature film rendering; GPGPU; out of core texture fetch; RenderMan; shaders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877745577     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1618452.1618501     Document Type: Article

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