High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Survey of Parallel Algorithms for Graphics and Visualization

      • Scott R. Whitman

      Pages 3-22

   3. Known and Potential High Performance Computing Applications in Computer Graphics and Visualization

      • Charles Hansen

      Pages 23-29

3. High Performance Rendering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. GRAMMY: High Performance Graphics Using Graphics Memories

      • G. Knittel, A. Schilling, W. Straßer

      Pages 33-48

   3. Assisting the Design and Optimisation of High Quality Parallel Renderers

      • Marcio Lobo Netto, Brigitta Lange, Christoph Hornung

      Pages 49-68

   4. A Classification Scheme for Rendering Algorithms on Parallel Computers

      • Alexander del Pino

      Pages 69-77

   5. Hybrid Scheduling for Efficient Ray Tracing of Complex Images

      • Erik Reinhard, Frederik W. Jansen

      Pages 78-87

   6. Scan-Line Methods for Parallel Rendering

      • Frank Dévai

      Pages 88-98

4. High Performance Volume Graphics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. A Modular Massively Parallel Processor for Volumetric Visualisation Processing

      • Anargyros Krikelis

      Pages 101-124

   3. A Load Balancing Scheme for Parallelizing Hierarchical Splatting on a MPP System with a Non-uniform Memory Access Architecture

      • Roberto Grosso, Thomas Ertl, Rainer Klier

      Pages 125-134

   4. Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Implementation of Voxelization for Volume Visualization

      • C. E. Prakash, S. Manohar

      Pages 135-145

5. High Performance Animation and Visualisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Parallel Processing for Photo-Realistic Emergency Lighting Visualisation

      • Alan G. Chalmers, Thomas Ramstad

      Pages 149-165

   3. Parallel Motion Synthesis

      • Martin Preston

      Pages 166-185

   4. Dynamic Terrain Generation Based on Multifractal Techniques

      • Joost van Lawick van Pabst, Hans Jense

      Pages 186-203

6. High Performance Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Collaborative and Interactive Visualization in a Distributed High Performance Software Environment

      • D. Rantzau, U. Lang, R. Lang, H. Nebel, A. Wierse, R. Ruehle

      Pages 207-216

This book contains mainly a selection of papers that were presented at the International Workshop on High Performance Computing/or Computer Graphics and Visualisation, held in Swansea, United Kingdom on 3-4 July 1995. The workshop was sponsored by the HEFCWI Initiative on ·Parallel Computing - Foundations and Applications·, and it has provided the international computer graphics community with a platform for: • assessing and reviewing the impact of the development of high performance computing on the progress of computer graphics and visualisation; • presenting the current use of high performance computing architecture and software tools in computer graphics and visualisation, and the development of parallel graphics algorithms; • identifying potential high performance computing applications in computer graphics and visualisation, and encouraging members of the graphics community to think about their problems from the perspective of parallelism. The book is divided into six sections. The first section, which acts as the introduction of the book, gives an overview of the current state of the art It contains a comprehensive survey, by Whitman, of parallel algorithms for computer graphics and visualisation; and a discussion, by Hansen, on the past, present and future high performance computing applications in computer graphics and visualisation. The second section is focused on the design and implementation of high performance architecture, software tools and algorithms for surface rendering.

• Scheme
• algorithms
• animation
• computer graphics
• performance
• rendering
• scheduling
• visualization

• Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Swansea, Swansea, UK

  M. Chen, P. Townsend

• Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK

  J. A. Vince

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