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Article #1339multi-processor ray tracing?
From: liam
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1986 10:07
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1986 10:07
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The July 1986 issue of BYTE (vol 11, no 7) has an article in
the KERNEL section entitled
BYTE U.K.: Personal Supercomputers
about the Transputer and the Meiko "Computing Surface" machine
based on it. It mentions
> Inmos showed some classy graphics demonstrations, including
> multi-processor ray-tracing programs that speeded up as more
> Transputers got switched in ...
> ... In the [final] demo, four layers of the actual CAD database
> files containing the layouts for the T414 were animated in
> three dimensions and real time so that we "flew" throught the
> chip layout itself.
There is about half a page or so about how they configured the
machine for this graphics work and some of the surprising snags
they found with the original way they tried to do it.
--
William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
LONDON, UK Tel: 01-980 4811 ext 3900
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.graphics Subject: multi-processor ray tracing? Message-ID: <171@cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 06:07:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cs.171 Posted: Fri Jul 18 06:07:18 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jul-86 05:59:29 EDT References: <249@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <2742@columbia.UUCP> <170@cs.qmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: CS Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 25 Keywords: ray tracing, multi-processing Summary: short article in BYTE