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@InProceedings{Highfield91,
  title = "{P}arallel {S}can {L}ine algorithm for {H}idden {S}urface {E}limination",
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  author= "Highfield, Julian C.",
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  editor= "Edwards, Janet",
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  pages = "217--224",
  booktitle= "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-14: {O}ccam and the {T}ransputer-{C}urrent {D}evelopments",
  isbn= "90 5199 063 4",
  year= "1991",
  month= "sep",
  abstract= "With the general availability of general purpose parallel
     computers, there is a need to reconsider scan conversion
     algorithms with respect to their parallel implementation.
     This paper considers MIMD parallel implementation of two
     versions of the scan conversion algorithm, one the common
     edge table optimisation, and one not. Their suitability for
     parallel implementation is investigated and their relative
     performance in multi-processor systems is measured using
     polygonal scene descriptions of between 150 and 2600
     polygons. Dependence upon the size of scene description is
     measured and results are extrapolated to larger scene
     descriptions. It is shown that scan conversion algorithms
     may be efficiently parallelised. It is also shown that the
     edge table optimisation, while appropriate to the single
     processor case, becomes useless at around twenty processors,
     and would actually be a disadvantage in the limiting case of
     one processor per scan line."
}

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