LINUX Cluster Possibilities in 3-D PHOTO Quality Imaging and Animation

In this paper we present the PC cluster built at R.V. College of Engineering (with great help from the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering). The structure of the cluster is described and the performance is evaluated by rendering of complex 3D Persistence of Vision (POV) images by the Ray-Tracing algorithm. Here, we propose an unexampled method to render such images, distributedly on a low cost scalable.

Authors:

• Arjun Jain
• Himanshu Agrawal
• Nalini Vasudevan

Keywords:

• PC cluster
• parallel computations
• ray tracing
• persistence of vision
• rendering.

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