A Parallel Image Rendering Algorithm and Architecture Based on Ray Tracing and Radiosity Shading

TL;DR: This work proposes a hybrid scheduling algorithm which brings tasks and data together according to coherence between rays, which removes the worst hot-spots from the data parallel component and reschedules those as demand driven tasks, thereby evening out the workload.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of comparisons between a real building, a virtual model and a physical model was undertaken to analyze the main sources of error, and the significant factors were considered.

TL;DR: A general global illumination method is presented which handles complex geometries using the concept of photon maps and has been parallelized on a network of 31 Silicon Graphics Workstations resulting in a speedup from 20 to 28.

TL;DR: A review of the different data locality methods and an implementation in the ray tracing program Radiance of local caching of global radiance values, which aims to improve cache coherence and cache access coherence.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive discussion of heat transfer by thermal radiation is presented, including the radiative behavior of materials, radiation between surfaces, and gas radiation, and the use of the Monte Carlo technique in solving radiant exchange problems and problems of radiative transfer through absorbing-emitting media.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers in such a manner as to permit cooperative solution.

TL;DR: The authors have divided the use of computers into the following four levels of sophistication: data processing, information processing, knowledge processing, and intelligence processing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method is described which models the interaction of light between diffusely reflecting surfaces, and the resultant surface intensities are independent of observer position, and thus environments can be preprocessed for dynamic sequences.