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Parallelizing a high accuracy hardware-assisted volume renderer for meshes with arbitrary polyhedra

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Janine Bennett,

Peter WilliamsAuthors Info & Claims

PVG '01: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics

Pages 101 - 106

Published: 22 October 2001 Publication History

Abstract

This paper discusses our efforts to improve the performance of the high-accuracy (HIAC) volume rendering system, based on cell projection, which is used to display unstructured, scientific data sets for analysis. The parallelization of HIAC, using the pthreads and MPI API's, resulted in significant speedup, but interactive frame rates are not yet attainable for very large data sets.

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Xie JYu HMa KScheuermann G(2013)Interactive ray casting of geodesic gridsProceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization10.1111/cgf.12135(481-490)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.12135
Bhaniramka PZhang CXue DCrawfis RWenger R(2004)Volume Interval Segmentation and RenderingProceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics10.5555/1038266.1039021(55-62)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1038266.1039021
Cook RMax NSilva CWilliams P(2004)Image-Space Visibility Ordering for Cell Projection Volume Rendering of Unstructured DataIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2004.4510:6(695-707)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TVCG.2004.45

Index Terms

Parallelizing a high accuracy hardware-assisted volume renderer for meshes with arbitrary polyhedra
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
  2. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Parallel programming languages

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PVG '01: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics

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California Institute of Technology
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Xie JYu HMa KScheuermann G(2013)Interactive ray casting of geodesic gridsProceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization10.1111/cgf.12135(481-490)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.12135
Bhaniramka PZhang CXue DCrawfis RWenger R(2004)Volume Interval Segmentation and RenderingProceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics10.5555/1038266.1039021(55-62)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1038266.1039021
Cook RMax NSilva CWilliams P(2004)Image-Space Visibility Ordering for Cell Projection Volume Rendering of Unstructured DataIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2004.4510:6(695-707)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TVCG.2004.45

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