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Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware V

Rendering, Ray Tracing and Visualization Systems

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Richard L. Grimsdale

    1. School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

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  2. Arie Kaufman

    1. Computer Science Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

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Part of the book series: Focus on Computer Graphics (FOCUS COMPUTER)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Rendering Machines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Triangle Shading Engine

      • Hans-Josef Ackermann, Christoph Hornung
      Pages 3-13

    3. The AIDA Display Processor System Architecture

      • S. R. Evans, R. L. Grimsdale, P. F. Lister, A. D. Nimmo
      Pages 15-28

    4. Real Time Phong Shading

      • Ute Claussen
      Pages 29-37

    5. A Multipurpose Hardware Shader

      • Josef Pöpsel, Eckard Tikwinski
      Pages 39-51

    6. Some Practical Aspects of Rendering

      • Andreas Schilling
      Pages 53-66

  3. Ray Tracing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. MARTI—A Multiprocessor Architecture for Ray Tracing Images

      • M-P. Hébert, M. D. J. McNeill, B. Shah, R. L. Grimsdale, P. F. Lister
      Pages 69-83

    3. A Cellular Architecture for Ray Tracing

      • Abdelghani Atamenia, Michel Meriaux, Eric Lepretre, Samuel Degrande, Bruno Vidal
      Pages 85-91

    4. An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures

      • Didier Badouel, Thierry Priol
      Pages 93-106

  4. Visualization Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Building a Full Scale V LSI-Based Volume Visualization System

      • Reuven Bakalash, Arie Kaufman, Zhong Xu
      Pages 109-115

    3. Correct Shading of Regularized CSG Solids Using a Depth-Interval Buffer

      • Jaroslaw R. Rossignac, Jeffrey Wu
      Pages 117-138

    4. I.M.O.G.E.N.E.—A Solution to the Real Time Animation Problem

      • Christophe Chaillou, Michel Meriaux, Sylvain Karpf
      Pages 139-151

    5. A New Space Partitioning for Mapping Computations of the Radiosity Method onto a Highly Pipelined Parallel Architecture

      • Li-Sheng Shen, E. Deprettere, P. Dewilde
      Pages 153-170

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 171-176
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About this book

This volume contains papers representing a comprehensive record of the contributions to the fifth workshop at EG '90 in Lausanne. The Eurographics hardware workshops have now become an established forum for the exchange of information about the latest developments in this field of growing importance. The first workshop took place during EG '86 in Lisbon. All participants considered this to be a very rewarding event to be repeated at future EG conferences. This view was reinforced at the EG '87 Hardware Workshop in Amsterdam and firmly established the need for such a colloquium in this specialist area within the annual EG conference. The third EG Hardware Workshop took place in Nice in 1988 and the fourth in Hamburg at EG '89. The first part of the book is devoted to rendering machines. The papers in this part address techniques for accelerating the rendering of images and efficient ways of improv­ ing their quality. The second part on ray tracing describes algorithms and architectures for producing photorealistic images, with emphasis on ways of reducing the time for this computationally intensive task. The third part on visualization systems covers a num­ ber of topics, including voxel-based systems, radiosity, animation and special rendering techniques. The contributions show that there is flourishing activity in the development of new algorithmic and architectural ideas and, in particular, in absorbing the impact of VLSI technology. The increasing diversity of applications encourage new solutions, and graphics hardware has become a research area of high activity and importance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

    Richard L. Grimsdale

  • Computer Science Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

    Arie Kaufman

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