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IRIS Performer: A high performance multiprocessing toolkit for real-time 3D graphics

Rohlf et al., 1994

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17266358718640519084
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Rohlf J
Helman J
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Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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This paper describes the design and implementation of IRIS Performer, a toolkit for visual simulation, virtual reality, and other real-time 3D graphics applications. The principal design goal is to allow application developers to more easily obtain maximal performance from 3D …
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