| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Lecture notes in computer science ; 373 |
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Lecture notes in computer science ; 373.
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| Contents |
1 Introduction -- 2 Graphics on general purpose parallel architectures -- 3 A parallel incremental rendering method -- 4 Parallel polygon rendering with precomputed surface patches -- 5 Parallel polygon rendering on a dual-paradigm parallel processor -- 6 Control parallel versus data parallel polygon clipping -- 7 Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book is the result of the research in the implementation of polygon-based graphics operations on certain general purpose parallel processors; the aim is to provide a speed-up over sequential implementations of the graphics operations concerned, and the resulting software can be viewed as a subset of the application suites of the relevant parallel machines. A literature review and a brief description of the architectures considered give an introduction into the field. Most algorithms are consistently presented in an informally defined extension of the Occam language which includes Single Instruction Multiple Data stream (SIMD) data types and operations on them. Original methods for polygon rendering - including the operations of filling, hidden surface elimination and smooth shading - are presented for SIMD architectures like the DAP and for a dual-paradigm (SIMD-MIMD) machine constructed out of a DAP-like processor array and a transputer network. Polygon clipping algorithms for both transputer and the DAP are described and contrasted. Apart from the information presented in the book and the useful literature survey, the reader can also expect to gain an insight into the programming of the relevant parallel machines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
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Computer algorithms.
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Rendering (Computer graphics)
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Polygons.
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Computer graphics.
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Algorithms
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Computer Graphics
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algorithms.
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polygons.
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computer graphics.
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Computer graphics
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Computer algorithms
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Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
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Polygons
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Rendering (Computer graphics)
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Rendering
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Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
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Algorithms.
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Computer graphics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
89019653 |
| ISBN |
9783540462040 |
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354046204X |
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