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From: kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Dataflow architectures and Ray Tracing
Keywords: dataflow machines, ray tracing, speed
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Date: 21 Jun 89 01:29:46 GMT
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Hi!  I am wondering if anybody knows if there have been any attempts to
port a ray tracing algorithm on a dataflow computer, or if there has been
such a machine especially built for ray tracing.  

I am posting to both comp.arch and comp.graphics since I think that it
concerns both newsgroups.

It seems to me that a dynamic dataflow architecture is more appropriate
to this problem because of the recursiveness and parallelism of the
algorithm.

Thanks in advance for any info...



  George Kyriazis
  kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu
  kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu
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