Parallel and distributed radiosity
Adelene Ng · 2002
A distributed memory, message passing MIMD and a distributed networked implementation of the progressive refined (PR) radiosity method are presented in this paper. The latter adopts a multiple server-single client approach instead of the usual single server-multiple client model. 3D axis-aligned bounding boxes are used to speed up the visibility determination of ray traced form factors. Results from both implementations are presented and compared. Several proposals to further improve the performance and increase the efficiencies are suggested as well.>