Ray tracing for natural scenes in parallel processors

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1067, Issue , 1996, Pages 297-305

  Verdú, Isidro ^a   Giménez, Domingo ^a   Tortes, Juan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS; HIERARCHICAL BOUNDING VOLUMES; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; PARALLEL PROCESSOR; PROCEDURAL MODELS; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84944216527     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61142-8_562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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