ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis
Abstract
A number of ASIC architectures are presented to build a system for fast photorealistic rendering of complex images. Both ray tracing and radiosity algorithms can be used. The system consists of a number of custom and general purpose processors that communicate through a serial interface. The scene database is split into three disjoint data sets. Rays are passed between processors. The load is dynamically balanced by means of a load balancing processor. Fine grain and coarse grain parallelismare exploited.
BibTeX
@inproceedings {10.2312:EGGH:EGGH92:044-052,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware},
editor = {P F Lister},
title = {{ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis}},
author = {Vijt, Peter De and Claesen, Luc and Man, Hugo De},
year = {1992},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {-},
ISBN = {-},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH92/044-052}
}
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware},
editor = {P F Lister},
title = {{ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis}},
author = {Vijt, Peter De and Claesen, Luc and Man, Hugo De},
year = {1992},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {-},
ISBN = {-},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH92/044-052}
}