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A hypercube ray-tracer

Salmon et al., 1989

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11294789302520955295
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Salmon J
Goldsmith J
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Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications-Volume 2

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We describe a hypercube ray-tracing program for rendering computer graphics. For small models, which fit in the memory of a single processor, the ray-tracer uses a scattered decomposition of pixels to balance the load, and achieves a very high efficiency. The more …
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