ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis

Vijt, Peter De; Claesen, Luc; Man, Hugo De

ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis

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Date

1992

Authors

Vijt, Peter De
Claesen, Luc
Man, Hugo De

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

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.

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booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {P F Lister
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title = {{ASICs for a High Performance IVIulti Processor Systemfor Photo-realistic Image Synthesis
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author = {Vijt, Peter De and 
Claesen, Luc and 
Man, Hugo De
},
year = {1992
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publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {-
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ISBN = {-
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DOI = {/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH92/044-052
}
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