Parallel Progressive Ray-tracing

dc.contributor.author	Notkin, Irena	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gotsman, Craig	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-27T11:53:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-27T11:53:43Z
dc.date.issued	1997	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1467-8659	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.115	en_US
dc.description.abstract	A dynamic task allocation algorithm for ray-tracing by progressive refinement on a distributed-memory parallel computer is described. Parallelization of progressive ray-tracing is difficult because of the inherent sequential nature of the sample location generation process, which is optimized (and different) for any given image. We report on experimental results obtained from our implementation of this algorithm on a Meiko parallel computer. The three performance measures of the algorithm, namely, load-balance, speedup, and image quality, are shown to be good.	en_US
dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association	en_US
dc.title	Parallel Progressive Ray-tracing	en_US
dc.description.seriesinformation	Computer Graphics Forum	en_US
dc.description.volume	16	en_US
dc.description.number	1	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/1467-8659.115	en_US
dc.identifier.pages	43-55	en_US