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

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