Impostors for Parallel Interactive Computer Graphics

163 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.We demonstrate an interactive parallel rendering system based on the impostors technique. Impostors increase the latency tolerance of an interactive rendering system, which allows us to use the power of a parallel machine even at high resolutions and framerates. Impostors also decrease the required rendering bandwidth, which makes possible the interactive use of a variety of advanced rendering techniques. These techniques are demonstrated by the interactive high-quality rendering of very large detailed models on large distributed-memory parallel machines.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD