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- From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
- Subject: SUMMERY: Parallel Graphics, etc.
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- Keywords: Parallel Graphics
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 22:25:33 GMT
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- SUMMERY: Parallel Graphics Algorithms
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- Introduction:
-
- Some time ago, I posted a question to serveral net newsgroups, for a
- bibliography on parallel graphics algorithms and related information.
- The responses I've got so far are encouraging to me for further
- investigation and experiment...
-
- Interestingly as "Sam Uselton" <uselton@nas.nasa.gov> quoted, "Ray
- tracing has been called the canonical embarassingly parallel
- algorithm ...", graphics applications are almost always "the first
- demos running on any new parallel machines".
-
- Lots of work and opportunities in this area -- so what are we waiting
- for?
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-
- Bibliographies:
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- * A ray tracing bibliography with abstracts available on
- princeton.edu in /pub/Graphics/Papers. There's a file
- "NetPapers" in which you could find which papers are available
- on the net, and where to get them.
-
- * A cross-indexed ray-tracing bibliography by "Rick Speer"
- <speer@cs.colorado.edu>. Vast amount of information: more than
- 500 citations from 1968; papers from SIGGRAPH, Graphics
- Interface, Eurographics, etc.; cross-indexed by keyword and
- author; gloossary of keywords... Available in PostScript
- "speer.raytrace.bib.ps.Z":
-
- weedeater.math.yale.edu /pub/Papers
- wuarchive.wustl.edu /graphics/graphics/bib/RT.BIB.Speer
- karazm.math.uh.edu /pub/Graphics
- gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au /pub/papers
- nic.funet.fi /pub/sci/papers/graphics
-
- * Eric Haines (erich@eye.com) maintains ray tracing and
- radiosity/global illumination bibliographies. These are in
- "refer" format, and so can be searched electronically (a simple
- awk script to search for keywords is included with each). The
- bibliographies are available at most of the sites listed above,
- and the most current versions are maintained at princeton.edu:
- /pub/Graphics/Papers as "RayBib.*" and "RadBib.*".
-
- * Tom Wilson <wilson@cs.ucf.edu> has collected over 300 abstracts
- from ray tracing related research papers and books. The
- information is essentially in plaintext, and Latex and troff
- formatting programs are included. This collection is available
- at most the sites above as "rtabs.*".
-
- * Scott Whitman <slim@llnl.gov> is gathering another
- bibliography. It will be sent out to the comp.graphics and
- comp.parallel newsgroup.
-
- * Ulrich Neuman from Chapel Hill is working on a bibliography for
- parallel volume randering.
-
- * ?
-
-
- Overview Books:
-
- * Green, S.
- Parallel Processing for Computer Graphics
- Cambridge, the MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-57087-4
-
- * Whitman, S.
- Multiprocessor Methods for Computer Graphics
- Jones and Bartlett, 1992, ISBN 0-86720-229-7
-
- The book can be ordered by mail directly from Jones and
- Bartlett Publishers, 20 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116; or by
- phone +1-800-832-0034; or by email, kpeters@math.harvard.edu.
- Prepaid orders (MC, VISA or check) will not be charged postage
- or handling.
-
- Abstract:
- The problem of quickly generating three-dimensional synthetic
- imagery has remained challenging for computer graphics
- researchers due to the large amount of data which is processed
- and the complexity of the calculations involved. This book
- involves a thorough investigation into the problem of using a
- massvely parallel computer to perform three-dimensional
- computer graphics rendering. The algorithms which are analyzed
- in this monograph present several alternative approaches to
- image space decomposition as well as remote memory access. A
- number of pointers are given so that researchers intending to
- develop their own parallel rendering algorithm will be able to
- obtain high performance and good speedup from a variety of
- multiprocessor architectures.
-
-
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- Send contributions to:
- mp-render@icase.edu
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- Acknowledgements
-
- Corrie, Brian <bcorrie@dubhe.anu.edu.au>
- Haines, Eric <erich@eye.com>
- Kadi, Zafer <kgzxk@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>
- McCabe, Dan <danm@watson.ibm.com>
- McPherson, Allen <bhagwan@agps.lanl.gov>
- Uselton, Sam <uselton@nas.nasa.gov>
- Whitman, Scott <slim@llnl.gov>
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