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Vince, MTech, PhD, FBCS, FVRS Boumemouth University Wallisdown Road, Wallisdown Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK Townsend, BSe, PhD, CEng, MBCS Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Swansea Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK I.A. High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation Proceedings of the International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Swansea, 3-4 July 1995 Springer London Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Budapest HongKong Milan Paris High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation
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The second section is focused on the design and implementation of high performance architecture, software tools and algorithms for surface rendering. The first section, which acts as the introduction of the book, gives an overview of the current state of the art It contains a comprehensive survey, by Whitman, of parallel algorithms for computer graphics and visualisation and a discussion, by Hansen, on the past, present and future high performance computing applications in computer graphics and visualisation. identifying potential high performance computing applications in computer graphics and visualisation, and encouraging members of the graphics community to think about their problems from the perspective of parallelism.

