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VIZARD - Visualization Accelerator for Realtime Display
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
Volume rendering has traditionally been an application for supercomputers, workstation networks or expensive special-purpose hardware. In contrast, this report shows how far we have reached using the other extreme: the ...
Memory Access Patterns of Occlusion-Compatible 3D Image Warping
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
McMillan and Bishop s 3D image warp can be efficiently implemented by exploiting the coherency of its memory accesses. We analyze this coherency, and present algorithms that take advantage of it. These algorithms traverse ...
Design Of A High Performance Volume Visualization System
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
Visualizing three dimensional discrete datasets has been a topic of many research projects and papers in the past decade. We discuss the issues that come up when designing a whole computer system capable of visualizing ...
A Ray-Slice-Sweep Volume Rendering Engine
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
Ray-slice-sweeping is a plane sweep algorithm for volume rendering, The compositing buffer sweeps through the volume and combines the accumulated image with the new slice of just-projected voxels. The image combination is ...
Codesign Of Graphics Hardware Accelerators
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
The design of a hardware architecture for a computer graphics pipeline requires a thorough understanding of the algorithms involved at each stage, and the implications these algorithms have on the organisation of the ...
Accommodating Memory Latency In A Low-cost Rasterizer
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
This paper describes design tradeoffs in a very low cost rasterizer circuit targeted for use in a video game console. The greatest single factor affecting such a design is the character of memory to which the image generator ...
Architectural Implications of Hardware-Accelerated Bucket Rendering on the PC
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
Bucket rendering is a technique whereby a scene is sorted into screen-space tiles and each tile is rendered independently in turn. We expect hardware-accelerated bucket rendering to become available on the PC, and in this ...
Towards Real-Time Photorealistic Rendering: Challenges and Solutions
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
A growing number of real-time applications need graphics with photorealistic quality, especially in the field of training (virtual operation, driving and flightsimulation), but also in the areas of design or ergonomic ...
High Quality Rendering Using the Talisman Architecture
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
Currently graphics devices that offer both high performance and high quality interactive rendering have been priced at a level that places them out of the reach of the broad number of users that constitutes the massmarket. ...
EM-Cube: An Architecture for Low-Cost Real-Time Volume Rendering
(The Eurographics Association, 1997)
EM-Cube is a VLSI architecture for low-cost, high quality volume rendering at full video frame rates. Derived from the Cube4 architecture developed at SUNY at Stony Brook, EM-Cube computes sample points and gradients ...