Interactive-Rate Animation Generation by Parallel Progressive Ray-Tracing on Distributed-Memory Machines

Interactive-Rate Animation Generation by Parallel Progressive Ray-Tracing on Distributed-Memory Machines

A Flexible and Scalable Rendering Engine for Interactive 3D Graphics

Ray-tracing is well-known as a general and flexible rendering algorithm that generates high-quality images. But in the past, raytracing implementations were too slow to be used in an interactive context. Recently, the performance of ray-tracing has been increased by over an order of magnitude, making it interesting as an alternative to rasterization-based rendering. We present a new rendering e...

Parallel Progressive Ray-tracing

A dynamic task allocation algorithm for ray-tracing by progressive refinement on a distributed-memory parallel computer is described. Parallelization of progressive ray-tracing is difficult because of the inherent sequential nature of the sample location generation process, which is optimized (and different) for any given image. We report on experimental results obtained from our implementation...

An Efficient Library for Parallel Ray Tracing and Animation

A parallel ray tracing library is presented for rendering high detail images of three dimensional geometry and computational fields. The library has been developed for use on distributed memory and shared memory parallel computers and can also run on sequential computers. Parallelism is achieved through the use of message passing and threads. It is shown that the library achieves almost linear ...

Ray Tracing Complex Scenes: Sequential or in Parallel?

We present a discussion whether current parallel machines or, preferable, fast sequential computers should be used to render images using ray tracing. Based on the deenitions of cost{eeective speedup and eeciency, we will show that shared memory machines have advantages over distributed memory machines. Moreover, the SB{Pram appears to be an architecture which allows for cost{eeective absolute ...