Optimized and load-balanced portable parallel Zbuffer

Henri-Pierre Charles; Laurent Lefevre; Serge Miguet

doi:10.1117/12.205973

7 April 1995 Optimized and load-balanced portable parallel Zbuffer

Henri-Pierre Charles, Laurent Lefevre, Serge Miguet

Proceedings Volume 2410, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205973
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the parallel implementation of the Zbuffer algorithm on different kinds of distributed memory machines. In computer graphics domain, the Zbuffer is one of the most popular and fastest techniques to generate a surfacic representation of a scene consisting of objects in a 3-dimensional world. To improve this method we develop a parallel algorithm which uses a hypercube topology, load-balancing techniques and portable global communications phases.

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Henri-Pierre Charles, Laurent Lefevre, and Serge Miguet "Optimized and load-balanced portable parallel Zbuffer", Proc. SPIE 2410, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis II, (7 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205973

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