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TigerSHARK : A Hardware Accelerated Ray-tracing Engine
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Humphreys, Greg |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Abstract | The current state of the art in graphics rendering algorithms and hardware is surveyed, and it is shown that ray-tracing, despite lar ger computational requirements than conventional algorithms, is more amenable to massive parallelism. The T ig rSHARK ray-tracing architecture is then presented as an extremely cost-ef fectiv means to exploit this fundamental parallelism. A competing approach is analyzed, and the T igerSHARK SIMD-variant architecture shown superior due to its use of low-cost high-performance reprogrammable computing elements and specialized architecture. Prototype hardware is briefly described. The system produces extremely high-quality output, efficiently using low-cost hardware to rival the rendering speeds of systems three orders of magnitude more expensive. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cscott.net/Publications/tigershark-thesis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cscott.net/Publications/tigershark-ieee.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Publications/tigershark-thesis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Publications/tigershark-ieee.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Publications/tigershark-thesis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cscott.net/Publications/tigershark-thesis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cscott.net/Publications/tigershark-ieee.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Publications/tigershark-ieee.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
