Distributed volume morphing

  • Authors:

  • Leewen Lin;Chungnan Lee;Tong-Yee Lee

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Computer and Information Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Institute of Computer and Information Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Cluster Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

3D morphing is a popular technique for creating a smooth transition between two objects. In this paper we integrate volume morphing and rendering in a distributed network environment to speed up the computation efficiency. We describe our proposed system architecture of distributed volume morphing and the proposed algorithms, along with their implementation and performance on the networked workstations. A load evaluation function is proposed to partition the workload and the workstation cluster for better load balancing and then to improve the performance under highly uneven load situation. The performance evaluation for five load balancing strategies are conducted. Among them, the strategy ‘Request’ performs the best in terms of speedup.