Though ray tracing has recently become interactive, its high precomputation time for building spatial indices usually limits its applications to walkthroughs of static scenes. Thi...
Based on the potential of current programmable GPUs, recently several approaches were developed that use the GPU to calculate deformations of surfaces like the folding of cloth or...
Shadows, particularly soft shadows, play an important role in the visual perception of a scene by providing visual cues about the shape and position of objects. Several recent alg...
Lionel Atty, Nicolas Holzschuch, Marc Lapierre, Je...
The Linux cluster considered in this paper, formed from shuttle box XPC nodes with 2 GHz Athlon processors connected by dual Gb Ethernet switches, is relatively easily constructed...
David J. Johnston, Martin Fleury, Michael Lincoln,...
Many applications can benefit from ubiquitous availability of multicast delivery. Unfortunately IP multicast coverage on the Internet is spotty at best, limited to individual camp...
Beichuan Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Sugih Jamin, Daniel M...