Reducing the amount of conditional branching instructions in innermost loops is crucial for high performance code on contemporary hardware architectures. In the context of ray tracing algorithms, typical examples for ...

Attention-based Level-Of-Detail (LOD) managers downgrade the quality of areas that are expected to go unnoticed by an observer to economize on computational resources. The perceptibility of lowered visual fidelity is ...

C.G.A.L. stands for Computer Graphics and Animation Language, and as its name implies, it is a computer language especially designed to help the user produce still and animated pictures with a Digital Computer. The major ...

We describe a subdivision scheme that acts on control nodes that each carry a vector of values. Each vector defines partial derivatives, referred to as jets in the following and subdivision computes new jets from old jets. ...

We are witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in computer design. Memory has beenand is becoming more hierarchical. Clock frequency is no longer crucial for performance.The on-chip core count is doubling rapidly. The quest ...

This paper proposes to revisit isosurface extraction algorithms taking into consideration two specific aspects of recent multicore architectures: their intrinsic parallelism associated with the presence of multiple computing ...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for retrieval and classification of 3D models that directly performs in the Computer- Aided Design (CAD) format without any conversion to other representations like point clouds ...

We describe a software package for the automation of design activities and the automatic production of design documentation. The package is currently beeing used by a consulting organisation in the design of railway -highway ...

In this paper we propose a method to link CAD models to an immersive environment. Since CAD models can not be directly viewed in a real-time visualization environment, we present here a complete chain of adapta-tion steps ...

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