Distributed interactive ray tracing of dynamic scenes

PVG 2003, Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-85

  Wald, I ^a   Benthin, C ^a   Slusallek, P ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Displays; Dynamic range; Graphics; History; Layout; Libraries; Ray tracing; Rendering (computer graphics); Scalability; System testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; HISTORY; LIBRARIES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SCALABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; DYNAMIC RANGE; GRAPHICS; INDEPENDENT OBJECTS; INTERACTIVE RAY TRACINGS; LAYOUT; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; SYSTEM TESTING;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84947220209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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