Ray tracing has long been a method of choice for off‐line rendering, but traditionally was too
slow for interactive use. With faster hardware and algorithmic improvements this has recently …

We describe Embree, an open source ray tracing framework for x86 CPUs. Embree is
explicitly designed to achieve high performance in professional rendering environments in …

Ray tracing is an inherent part of photorealistic image synthesis algorithms. The problem of
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …

Ray tracing has long been considered as the next-generation technology for graphics
rendering. Recently, there has been strong momentum to adopt ray tracing--based …

We present an algorithm for constructing kd-trees on GPUs. This algorithm achieves real-
time performance by exploiting the GPU's streaming architecture at all stages of kd-tree …

We present two novel parallel algorithms for rapidly constructing bounding volume
hierarchies on manycore GPUs. The first uses a linear ordering derived from spatial Morton …

We propose a new massively parallel algorithm for constructing high-quality bounding
volume hierarchies (BVHs) for ray tracing. The algorithm is based on modifying an existing …

Bounding volume hierarchies (BVH) have become a widely used alternative to kD-trees as
the acceleration structure of choice in modern ray tracing systems. However, BVHs adapt …

We present HLBVH and SAH-optimized HLBVH, two high performance BVH construction
algorithms targeting real-time ray tracing of dynamic geometry. HLBVH provides a novel …

A recently developed algorithm called Hierachical Linear Bounding Volume Hierarchies
(HLBVH) has demonstrated the feasibility of reconstructing the spatial index needed for ray …