BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T163633Z LOCATION:Darling Harbour Theatre\, Level 2 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T124500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess209_papers_816@linklings.com SUMMARY:Lock-free Vertex Clustering for Multicore Mesh Reduction DESCRIPTION:Nima Fathollahi and Sean Chester (University of Victoria)\n\nM odern data collection methods can capture representations of 3D objects at resolutions much greater than they can be discretely rendered as an image . To improve the efficiency of storage, transmission, rendering, and editi ng of 3D models constructed from such data, it is beneficial to first empl oy a mesh reduction technique to reduce the size of a mesh. Vertex cluster ing, a technique that merges close vertices together, has particularly wid e applicability, because it operates only on vertices and their spatial pr oximity. However, it is also very difficult to accelerate with parallelisa tion in a deterministic manner because it contains extensive algorithmic d ependencies.\n\nPrior work treats the non-trivial clustering step of this process serially to preserve vertex priorities, which fundamentally limits to mid-single digits the acceleration rates that are possible for the pro cess overall. This paper introduces a novel lock-free parallel algorithm, P-Weld, that exposes parallelism with a graph-theoretic lens that iterativ ely peels away layers of a mesh that have no remaining dependencies. Concu rrent updates to shared data are managed with a linearisable sequence of a tomic instructions that exactly reproduces the serial clustering. The resu lting parallelism and improved spatial locality yield a 3.86× speed-up on a standard 14-million vertex mesh and a 2.93× speed-up on a 400-million ve rtex LiDaR point cloud covering the city of Vancouver, Canada, relative to a popular open source library.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Enh anced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor\n\n URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_816&sess=sess209 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR