Parallel Processing for Computer Graphics

by Stuart Green

Computer graphics has emerged as one of the most important and appropriate uses of parallel computers and supercomputers. Green provides background information on both computer graphics and parallel computers and then goes on to describe how a distributed memory multiprocessor can be used to effectively implement the ray tracing algorithm. He emphasizes a general-purpose approach so that the techniques developed can be applied to other applications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262570874
• ISBN13: 9780262570879
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"