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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Med Robot. 2008 Jun;4(2):131–138. doi: 10.1002/rcs.185

TABLE 1.

Performance of the VBLaST™ for the four simulated tasks

Pattern-
cutting
Ligating-
loop
Suturing Peg-
transfer
Deforming faces 512 720+28 1 878+50 0

Graphics display 60 Hz 60 Hz 60 Hz 60 Hz
Haptics rendering 3 500 Hz 600 Hz 4 000 Hz 8 000 Hz
Physics-based deformation 1 400 Hz 400 Hz 400 Hz N/A

Values correspond to the number of frames per second of each execution thread. Notice that the execution threads are asynchronous to optimize multi-core efficiency.