Parallel and distributed radiosity

Author

Ng, Adelene

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queen Mary & Westfield Coll., London, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

22-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

10

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1994.369344

Filename

369344