Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing of Highly Complex Models - Gallery
This page contains still images and movies created during this project
The has been provided by Anselmo Lastra from UNC. It shows a fully
modelled power plant and consists of roughly 12.5 million triangles.
With our interactive distributed ray tracing system, we have been able
to render the whole (i.e. non-simplified) model at interactive frame rates.
In total, only seven dual-PentiumIII linux boxes have been used to create the
following animations.
All animations have been rendered WITHOUT ISSE support. Since ISSE support is
now turned on again, the achieved framerate is about twice as high in the newest
version of the system.
Still Images:
Click for the images to see the full-resolution images (640x480) as they have
been 'live' captured from the running system.
Seven dual-PentiumIII (800-866 MHz) linux boxes have been sufficient to achieve the frame
rates as shown in the title bars of the screenshots.
Some outside views:
With reflections and Lightting:
The right image shows even the entire powerplant reflected in one of the
tubes.
Some inside views:
Movies
Due to compression, resampling and rescaling, all movies are quite blurry.
The original rendering quality can be seen in the still images below.
Also note that the 'jaggy' camera movement results from the user interface,
not from lacking rendering speed.
All animations are rendered in 640x480 pixels if not stated otherwise.
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"The Powerplant"
[avi, 29Mb]
an animation showing a camera path that goes from the outside to the inside
of the powerplant
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"FlyAround"
[avi, 37Mb]
an animation that shows a camera flight around the powerplant
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"The Furnace"
[avi, 13.5Mb]
an animation showing the geometric complexity of the powerplants furnace
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"Shadows and Reflections"
[avi, 7.5Mb]
image resolution: 320x240
the powerplant with raytraced shadows and reflections
i.w., june 2001