Volume Rendering of Large Datasets on the Cray T3D
Greg Johnson, Jon Genetti · 1996
We have produced a memory optimized volume renderer called Splatter for the Cray T3D. Splatter can render the 512x512x1877 CT dataset (1 GB) from the Visible Human Project in 6.14 seconds on 128 PEs and 11.64 seconds on 64 PEs. Splatter can also render a 1024x608x1877 version of the cryosection dataset from the Visible Human Project in 11.8 seconds on 128 PEs and 23 seconds on 64 PEs. An AVS interface gives the user control of the resolution of the shaded data, so large datasets are more likely to fit in memory.