The hierarchical radiosity algorithm provides high-quality illumination and the view-independent results obtained can be re-employed for different camera positions. On the other hand, the utilization of multiresolution models is a common solution for the real-time rendering of complex scenes. In this case, the level of detail of each object depends on the specific camera position. Unfortunately, global illumination computations may present an important performance loss in this context. In...

This work describes a parallel implementation of a distinctly different concept in self-organizing maps (SOMs)—processing of the input as a whole, in parallel, via neurons attracted to cover regions of the input space rather than single input instances. The algorithm is analyzed from the perspective of its parallelism and a simple multi-machine concept is utilized to demonstrate the parallel nature of the neural network architecture. The nature of the classic SOM (Ozdzynski, P., Lin, A.,...