Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the
use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning …

The interaction of light and matter in the world surrounding us is of striking complexity and
beauty. Since the very beginning of computer graphics, adequate modelling of these …

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent
improvements in its programmability, have made graphics hardware a compelling platform …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

We present an algorithm for constructing kd-trees on GPUs. This algorithm achieves real-
time performance by exploiting the GPU's streaming architecture at all stages of kd-tree …

Join is an important database operation. As computer architectures evolve, the best join
algorithm may change hand. This paper re-examines two popular join algorithms--hash join …

We present a novel external sorting algorithm using graphics processors (GPUs) on large
databases composed of billions of records and wide keys. Our algorithm uses the data …

Node level heterogeneous architectures have become attractive during the last decade for
several reasons: compared to traditional symmetric CPUs, they offer high peak performance …

We present new algorithms for performing fast computation of several common database
operations on commodity graphics processors. Specifically, we consider operations such as …