Rendering on Diverse Platforms
 
Chair
Alan Commike
SGI

Sort-First Parallel Rendering With a Cluster of PCs
An investigation of research issues in constructing a low-cost parallel rendering system using a cluster of PCs. This work demonstrates that sort-first approaches can achieve good speedups for moderate numbers of PCs.
 
Rudrajit Samanta
Princeton University 35 Olden Street Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA rudro@cs.princeton.edu

Interactive 3D Rendering on PDA Platforms
An implementation of OpenGL on the Palm Computing platform, including support for geometric transforms, material property/coloring, lighting, texturing, and anti-aliasing. The presentation included hardware limitation issues, and motivation.
 
Michael Sherman
Digital Sandbox, Inc.
620 Herndon Parkway
Suite 200
Herndon, Virginia 20170 USA
msherman@dsbox.com

Implementing the OpenGL API With Direct Rendering in Linux
Open-source implementation of the direct rendering infrastructure (DRI) included in XFree86 release 4.0 for Linux. The DRI provides secure, high-performance access to graphics hardware.
 
Daryll Strauss
Precision Insight
2607 Nelson Avenue, Unit G
Redondo Beach, California 90278 USA
daryll@precisioninsight.com