Transparent distributed processing for rendering

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, PVGS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 39-46

  Kipfer, Peter ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design Pattern; Distributed Processing; Global Illumination; Lighting Networks; Object oriented Design; Parallel Processing

Indexed keywords

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LIGHTING; MIDDLEWARE; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN PATTERNS; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; PARALLEL PROCESSING;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84991059575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/328712.319335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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