Characterization of Static 3D Graphics Workloads

Chiueh, Tzi-cker; Lin, Wei-jen

Characterization of Static 3D Graphics Workloads

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017-023.pdf (943.28 KB)

Date

1997

Authors

Chiueh, Tzi-cker
Lin, Wei-jen

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

3D graphics transform 3D models into 2D images by simulating the physics of light propagation from the lighting sources, through the objects, and eventually to the eyes. Although specialized graphics hardware engines have been proposed and implemented in the past, and a heated interest in PC-class 3D graphics cards is currently emerging, detailed descriptions and analysis of 3D graphics workloads which graphics hardware design can be based on are almost non-existent. This work takes the first step towards a comprehensive 3D graphics workload characterization by reporting the results of an empirical study using an instrumented software polygonal renderer tested on a wide variety of static 3D graphics models with sufficiently sophisticated geometric and texture properties.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGGH/EGGH97/017-023
,
booktitle = {SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {A. Kaufmann and W. Strasser and S. Molnar and B.-O. Schneider
},
title = {{Characterization of Static 3D Graphics Workloads
}},
author = {Chiueh, Tzi-cker and 
Lin, Wei-jen
},
year = {1997
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {0-89791-961-0
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH97/017-023
}
}