Masters Theses
Abstract
"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 scalability when run on large distributed memory parallel computers as well as large shared memory parallel computers.
Several applications of parallel rendering are explored including rendering of CAD models, animation, magnetic resonance imaging, and visualization of volumetric flow fields. Ray tracing offers many advantages over polygon rendering techniques, in its innate parallelism, and quality of output"--Abstract, page iii.
Advisor(s)
Erçal, Fikret
Committee Member(s)
Walters, Frank Garnett
Pottinger, Hardy J., 1944-
Department(s)
Computer Science
Degree Name
M.S. in Computer Science
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Publication Date
Spring 1998
Pagination
x, 79 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-78).
Rights
© 1998 John Edward Stone, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Thesis Number
T 7474
Print OCLC #
39647472
Link to Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Stone, John Edward, "An efficient library for parallel ray tracing and animation" (1998). Masters Theses. 1747.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/1747