Impostors for Parallel Interactive Computer Graphics

We introduce an interactive parallel rendering system based on the impostors technique. Impostors increase the latency tolerance of an interactive rendering system, which allows us to use the power of the parallel machine even at high resolutions and framerates. Impostors also decrease the required rendering bandwidth, which makes possible the interactive use of advanced rendering techniques like antialiased raytracing. These techniques are demonstrated by the interactive high-quality rendering of very large higly detailed models.