Evaluation of per-pixel linked lists for distributed rendering and comparative analysis

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 111-121

  Kauker, Daniel ^a   Krone, Michael ^a   Panagiotidis, Alexandros ^a   Reina, Guido ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed rendering; Multi variant data analysis; Order independent transparency

Indexed keywords

TRANSPARENCY;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPOSITING; COMPUTATION NODES; DISTRIBUTED RENDERING; IN CONTEXTS; LARGE DATASETS; LINKED LIST APPROACHES; ORDER-INDEPENDENT TRANSPARENCIES;

PIXELS;

EID: 84890426232     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00791-013-0203-6     Document Type: Article

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