Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu.!smd
From: smd@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Steven Drucker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: parallel radiosity
Message-ID: <SMD.91Jun19170327@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 22:03:27 GMT
References: <23065@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Media Lab
Lines: 16
In-Reply-To: aburke@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu's message of 19 Jun 91 19: 12:53 GMT


	I've written a parallel radiosity renderer on the Connection
Machine.  I worked on it while I was a summer intern last summer (and
this summer) at Thinking Machines Corporation.

	It does adaptive subdivision and some other nifty things.
Essentially it implements Wallace et al's algorithm for computing form
factors using raytracing in parallel.  I've written up some stuff but
not extensively since another person and I are working on some methods
to speed up the ray tracing step.

	I'll post more details if people are interested.

-- Steven Drucker
Ph.D Student @ Mit Media Lab
Summer Intern @ Thinking Machines Corporation