Nawfal, S and Ali, F (2018) The acceleration of 3D graphics transformations based on cuda. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 16(6), pp. 925-937. ISSN 1726-0531
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to achieve the acceleration of 3D object transformation using parallel techniques such as multi-core central processing unit (MC CPU) or graphic processing unit (GPU) or even both. Generating 3D animation scenes in computer graphics requires applying a 3D transformation on the vertices of the objects. These transformations consume most of the execution time. Hence, for high-speed graphic systems, acceleration of vertex transform is very much sought for because it requires many matrix operations (need) to be performed in a real time, so the execution time is essential for such processing. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, the acceleration of 3D object transformation is achieved using parallel techniques such as MC CPU or GPU or even both. Multiple geometric transformations are concatenated together at a time in any order in an interactive manner. Findings: The performance results are presented for a number of 3D objects with paralleled implementations of the affine transform on the NVIDIA GPU series. The maximum execution time was about 0.508 s to transform 100 million vertices using LabVIEW and 0.096 s using Visual Studio. Other results also showed the significant speed-up compared to CPU, MC CPU and other previous work computations for the same object complexity. Originality/value: The high-speed execution of 3D models is essential in many applications such as medical imaging, 3D games and robotics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 3D objects; cuda; GPU; transformations; vertices |
| Index terms: | transformation, 3D model, acceleration, computer graphic, implementation, robotics, real time, complexity, studio, computation, methodology |
| Subjects: | automation and robotics, research methods, systems engineering, project controls, computer hardware, computational methods, business, construction type, computational design, contractual arrangements |
| Topics: | Construction Technology, Procurement, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Engineering Principles, Time Control, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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