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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Communications of the ACM
The pixel machine: a parallel image computer
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Pixel-planes 5: a heterogeneous multiprocessor graphics system using processor-enhanced memories
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Parallel object-space hidden surface removal
SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
PixelFlow: high-speed rendering using image composition
SIGGRAPH '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
A multicomputer polygon rendering algorithm for interactive applications
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Fast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and imgage enhancements in pixel-planes
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Hybrid sort-first and sort-last parallel rendering with a cluster of PCs
HWWS '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware
A parallel scan conversion algorithm with anti-aliasing for a general-purpose ultracomputer
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A system design revolution (Panel Session)
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Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware
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Described is a procedure for executing a visible surface algorithm in a new multi-microprocessor system which utilizes distributed image and depth (“Z”) buffers. It is shown that despite image distribution over a large number of processing and memory units, object coherence can still be maintained and used to reduce the number of calculations needed to generate a continuous-tone visible surface image.