Fast Radiosity by Parallelization

A parallel solution of the radiosity approach for realistic image rendering is presented. The tremendous costs of computation power and memory of radiosity implementations are met by parallelization on a computer architecture based on transputers. Form-factors are computed in parallel and independently on several processors, thus giving a high acceleration of this most computationally intensive task. Parallel solutions for equation solving and rendering are also introduced. These parallelizations of the radiosity approach leed to an extraordinary speed-up in image generation and can be adapted for different kinds of parallel computer architectures.