For interactive rendering of large polygonal objects, fast visibility queries are necessary to quickly decide whether polygonal objects are visible and need to be rendered. None of the numerous published algorithms provide ...

Bucket rendering is a technique in which the framebuffer is subdivided into coherent regions that are rendered independently. The primary benelits of this technique are the decrease in the size of the working set of ...

We present a parallel 2D mesh connected architecture with SIMD processing elements. The design allows for real-time volume rendering as well as interactive 30 segmentation and 1D feature extraction. This is possible because ...

A multiple-port, distributed frame buffer has been recently proposed to support parallel rendering on multicomputers. This paper describes an implementation of such a distributed frame buffer for the Intel Paragon routing ...

We present a method Jor volume rendering of regular grids which takes advantage of 3D texture mapping hardware currently, available on graphics workstations. Our method products accurate shading for arbitrary and dynamically ...

Three-dimensional scenes have become an important form of content deliverable through the Internet. Standard formats such as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) make it possible to dynamically download complex scenes ...

Environment maps are widely used for approximating reflections in hardware-accelerated rendering applications. Unfortunately, the parameterizations for environment maps used in today s graphics hardware severely undersample ...

Complex 3D polygonal models are typically represented as triangular meshes, especially when they are generated procedurally, or created from volumetric data sets through surface extraction. Existing 3D rendering hardware, ...

We present an improved z-buffer based CSG rendering algorithm, based on previous techniques using z-buffer parity based surface clipping. We show that while this type of algorithm has been reported as requiring O(n2), ...

In this paper a new low cost bump mapping hardware is prcsented. The new hardware approach does not rely on per pixel lighting, but instead uses Gouraud interpolated triangles. The bump mapping effect is applied by blending ...