The C programming language
A graphics system architecture for interactive application-specific display functions
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Statistically optimized sampling for distributed ray tracing
SIGGRAPH '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Improved Computational Methods for Ray Tracing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
An improved illumination model for shaded display
Communications of the ACM
Hierarchical geometric models for visible surface algorithms
Communications of the ACM
Links-1 - a parallel pipelined multimicrocomputer system for image creation
ISCA '83 Proceedings of the 10th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Structured machine design: An ongoing experiment
ISCA '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
A 3-dimensional representation for fast rendering of complex scenes
SIGGRAPH '80 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
An adaptive subdivision algorithm and parallel architecture for realistic image synthesis
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Parallel machines for computer graphics
Parallel machines for computer graphics
An updated cross-indexed guide to the ray-tracing literature
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Breadth-First Ray Tracing Utilizing Uniform Spatial Subdivision
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
A distributed data model for raytracing
EGGH'88 Proceedings of the Third Eurographics conference on Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware
Parallelization and hardware support for ray tracing
EGGH'92 Proceedings of the Seventh Eurographics conference on Graphics Hardware
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New single- and multiprocessor models for ray tracing are presented. Important features are (1) the use of custom VLSI building blocks, (2) the use of a modified hierarchical data-structure-based ray tracing algorithm with three disjoint data sets, and (3) scene access through adaptive information broadcasting. A modular design is presented that permits incremental performance enhancement up to two orders of magnitude over conventional minicomputers or workstations. Ray tracing is a surprisingly good application for a shared bus architecture because of the computational complexity of intersecting light rays with graphics objects.