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Re: [MANTA] MANTA : Questions about how the rendering stack works


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  • From: Shreekanth Pavar <shreekanth.pavar@ucl.ac.uk>
  • To: "Steven G. Parker" <sparker@cs.utah.edu>
  • Cc: MANTA <manta@sci.utah.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [MANTA] MANTA : Questions about how the rendering stack works
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:06:56 +0000
Quoting "Steven G. Parker" <sparker@cs.utah.edu>:

Let us know if you have any more questions. If it would make sense to have a conference call at some point, we would be willing to set one up.


Thanks a lot for your prompt and detailed reply Steve. It's always a privilege
to get your answers from the person who actually wrote the original code !

As a result, I think I have a reasonable understanding of how the rendering
stack works, which will suffice for now.

To put the approach taken by Manta into context, would you agree that it uses a
"Sort-Last" approach to parallel rendering as defined in the paper below ?

A sorting classification for parallel rendering
S. Molnar, M. Cox, D. Ellsworth, and H. Fuchs.  1994
IEEE Computuer Graphics and  Applications 14, 4 (Jul 1994), pp.23-32.
DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/38.291528

I'm now studying the parallel pipelining code to understand how the
multi-threading is used to render and display each frame; so I may require you
indulgence to answer some questions about this soon :)

Thankyou for offering to setup a conference call for more detailed discussion.
I'm off on vacation (for 2wks) from this weekend so I don't think this can
happen until mid April, but it would indeed be helpful to speak with you
directly when I've exhausted my own efforts.

Cheers
Shree







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