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In the field of large-scale data visualization, the graphics rendering speed is one of the most important factors for its application development. Since the large-scale data visualization usually requires three-dimensional representations, the three-dimensional graphics libraries such as OpenGL and DirectX have been widely used. In this paper, we suggest a new way of accelerated rendering, through directly using the direct rendering manager packets. Current three-dimensional graphics features are focused on the efficiency of general purpose rendering pipelines. In contrast, we concentrated on the speed-up of the special-purpose rendering pipeline, for point cloud rendering. Our result shows that we achieved our purpose effectively.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant 2019R1I1A3A01061310).
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Baek, N., Yoo, KH. An accelerated rendering scheme for massively large point cloud data. J Supercomput 76, 8313–8323 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-019-03114-y
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