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This paper presents a description of the image generation sub-system developed to allow the presentation of realistic visual feedback in interactive visual simulation with large scene databases. The developed image generator applies all the standard state-of-art image generation algorithms aimed to real-time interactive simulation. Some of these important algorithms are also explained in this document. I addition, some innovative optimization techniques like the hierarchical back face rejection of objects, the visibility preprocessing and the automatic optimization of levels-of-detail are being developed and detailed in this paper. These techniques will allow a better use of any image generation system and improve significantly the visualization of huge scene databases even in high-end graphics architectures.

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In this paper we introduce a classification for spatio-temporal systems based on the properties of the represented objects. Building on this classification, we assert that complex objects can be derived from simpler ones, following an evolutionary approach which starts with the study of simple objects and ends by enriching them with new features. This paper focuses on the definition of a data model for the representation of moving points. The model is based on the decomposition of the trajectory of moving points into sections. The movement within each section of a trajectory is described by a variability function. Because for most systems is not possible to store the exact knowledge about the movement of an object, the answers to queries may be imprecise. We propose two additional approaches to deal with impression-the superset and the subset semantics-based on a maximum value for the variability function, and a smooth technique to integrate them in the model. Finally, we analyze certain functional aspects of the implementation of the data model in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and outline directions for future research.

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This paper presents a new approach to synthesize to reconfigurable hardware (HW) user-specified regions of a program, under the assumption of "virtual HW" support. The automation of this approach is supported by a compiler front-end and by an HW compiler under development. The front-end starts from the Java bytecodes and, therefore, supports any language that can be compiled to the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) model. It extracts from the bytecodes all the dependencies inside and between basic blocks. This information is stored in representation graphs more suitable to efficiently exploit the existent parallelism in the program than those typically used in high-level synthesis. From the intermediate representations the HW compiler exploits the temporal partitions at the behavior level, resolves memory access conflicts, and generates the VHDL descriptions at register-transfer level that will be mapped into the reconfigurable HW devices.