From: azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao)
Subject: SUMMERY: Parallel Graphics, etc.
Followup-To: comp.parallel
Keywords: Parallel Graphics
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ of Arizona, Tucson
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:25:33 GMT


	SUMMERY:  Parallel Graphics Algorithms
	--------------------------------------


Introduction:

  Some time ago, I posted a question to serveral net newsgroups, for a
  bibliography on parallel graphics algorithms and related information.
  The responses I've got so far are encouraging to me for further
  investigation and experiment...

  Interestingly as "Sam Uselton" <uselton@nas.nasa.gov> quoted, "Ray
  tracing has been called the canonical embarassingly parallel
  algorithm ...", graphics applications are almost always "the first
  demos running on any new parallel machines".

  Lots of work and opportunities in this area -- so what are we waiting
  for?


Bibliographies:

  *     A ray tracing bibliography with abstracts available on
	princeton.edu in /pub/Graphics/Papers. There's a file
	"NetPapers" in which you could find which papers are available
	on the net, and where to get them.

  *     A cross-indexed ray-tracing bibliography by "Rick Speer"
	<speer@cs.colorado.edu>. Vast amount of information: more than
	500 citations from 1968; papers from SIGGRAPH, Graphics
	Interface, Eurographics, etc.; cross-indexed by keyword and
	author; gloossary of keywords... Available in PostScript
	"speer.raytrace.bib.ps.Z":

	weedeater.math.yale.edu		/pub/Papers
	wuarchive.wustl.edu		/graphics/graphics/bib/RT.BIB.Speer
	karazm.math.uh.edu		/pub/Graphics
	gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au		/pub/papers
	nic.funet.fi			/pub/sci/papers/graphics

  *     Eric Haines (erich@eye.com) maintains ray tracing and
	radiosity/global illumination bibliographies. These are in
	"refer" format, and so can be searched electronically (a simple
	awk script to search for keywords is included with each). The
	bibliographies are available at most of the sites listed above,
	and the most current versions are maintained at princeton.edu:
	/pub/Graphics/Papers as "RayBib.*" and "RadBib.*".

  *     Tom Wilson <wilson@cs.ucf.edu> has collected over 300 abstracts
	from ray tracing related research papers and books. The
	information is essentially in plaintext, and Latex and troff
	formatting programs are included. This collection is available
	at most the sites above as "rtabs.*".

  *     Scott Whitman <slim@llnl.gov> is gathering another
	bibliography. It will be sent out to the comp.graphics and
	comp.parallel newsgroup.

  *     Ulrich Neuman from Chapel Hill is working on a bibliography for
	parallel volume randering.

  *	?


Overview Books:

  *	Green, S.
	Parallel Processing for Computer Graphics
	Cambridge, the MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-57087-4

  *	Whitman, S.
	Multiprocessor Methods for Computer Graphics
	Jones and Bartlett, 1992, ISBN 0-86720-229-7

	The book can be ordered by mail directly from Jones and
	Bartlett Publishers, 20 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116; or by
	phone +1-800-832-0034; or by email, kpeters@math.harvard.edu.
	Prepaid orders (MC, VISA or check) will not be charged postage
	or handling.

    Abstract:
	The problem of quickly generating three-dimensional synthetic
	imagery has remained challenging for computer graphics
	researchers due to the large amount of data which is processed
	and the complexity of the calculations involved. This book
	involves a thorough investigation into the problem of using a
	massvely parallel computer to perform three-dimensional
	computer graphics rendering. The algorithms which are analyzed
	in this monograph present several alternative approaches to
	image space decomposition as well as remote memory access. A
	number of pointers are given so that researchers intending to
	develop their own parallel rendering algorithm will be able to
	obtain high performance and good speedup from a variety of
	multiprocessor architectures.


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Acknowledgements

	Corrie, Brian		<bcorrie@dubhe.anu.edu.au>
	Haines, Eric		<erich@eye.com>
	Kadi, Zafer		<kgzxk@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>
	McCabe, Dan		<danm@watson.ibm.com>
	McPherson, Allen	<bhagwan@agps.lanl.gov>
	Uselton, Sam		<uselton@nas.nasa.gov>
	Whitman, Scott		<slim@llnl.gov>


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= Qiang Alex Zhao		   Computer Science Department
  azhao@cs.arizona.edu             University of Arizona
  (602) 621-1815                   Tucson, AZ 85721

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