Title :
Parallel and distributed radiosity
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
A distributed memory, message passing MIMD and a distributed networked implementation of the progressive refined (PR) radiosity method are presented in this paper. The latter adopts a multiple server-single client approach instead of the usual single server-multiple client model. 3D axis-aligned bounding boxes are used to speed up the visibility determination of ray traced form factors. Results from both implementations are presented and compared. Several proposals to further improve the performance and increase the efficiencies are suggested as well
Keywords :
brightness; client-server systems; distributed memory systems; message passing; ray tracing; rendering (computer graphics); 3D axis-aligned bounding boxes; distributed memory message passing MIMD; distributed networked implementation; distributed radiosity; multiple server-single client approach; parallel radiosity; progressive refined radiosity method; ray traced form factors; single server-multiple client model; visibility determination; Casting; Computer science; Databases; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Layout; Lighting; Message passing; Processor scheduling; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer Technology. Proceedings of 1994
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1862-5
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1994.369344
