Paper Details

%T Techniques for rendering solid objects on a processor farm
%A Peter M. Dew, Nick Holliman, David Morris, Alan de Pennington
%E Charlie Askew
%B OUG\-9: Occam and the Transputer \-\- Research and Applications
%X Collaborative research by Leeds University and the IBM UK
   Scientific Centre has resulted in an experimental parallel
   solid modeller called MISTRAL, based on the Constructive
   Solid Geometry (CSG) representation of solid objects. This
   paper gives an overview of the CSG rendering algorithms
   implemented in MISTRAL, a description of the MISTRAL
   modeller itself, and describes how several different kinds
   of parallelism may be exploited using a processor farm. It
   concludes by discussing some of the issues involved in
   writing complex parallel programs in OCCAM2.

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