PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING APPARATUS FOR UNSTRUCTURED GRID AND MEHTOD THEREOF

摘要

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus and method for performing unstructured grid volume rendering, the apparatus comprising: a time-independent information calculation unit for calculating connection information between cells constituting an unstructured grid; An intersecting list generating unit for generating an intersecting list using the calculated connection information, an image plane converting unit for dividing the image plane converted into the screen coordinate system into blocks, A light beam projection processing unit for distributing the light beam group to the thread to be subjected to the light projection, and a plurality of threads for processing the light beams belonging to the block allocated from the light projection processing unit.