[PDF][PDF] Architecture considerations for tracing incoherent rays
T Aila, T Karras - Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance …, 2010 - cs.cmu.edu
This paper proposes a massively parallel hardware architecture for efficient tracing of
incoherent rays, eg for global illumination. The general approach is centered around …
incoherent rays, eg for global illumination. The general approach is centered around …
Sorted deferred shading for production path tracing
C Eisenacher, G Nichols, A Selle… - Computer Graphics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ray‐traced global illumination (GI) is becoming widespread in production rendering but
incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory …
incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory …
Treelet prefetching for ray tracing
Ray tracing is traditionally only used in offline rendering to produce images of high fidelity
because it is computationally expensive. Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have …
because it is computationally expensive. Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have …
Tracing of shader-generated ray groups using coupled intersection testing
JA McCombe, RR Salsbury, LT Peterson - US Patent 8,237,711, 2012 - Google Patents
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5,933,146 A 8/1999 Wrigley 5,973,699 A 10, 1999 Kent 5.990, 896 A 11/1999 Barrus …
Efficient stack-less bvh traversal for ray tracing
We propose a new, completely iterative traversal algorithm for ray tracing bounding volume
hierarchies that is based on storing a parent pointer with each node, and on using simple …
hierarchies that is based on storing a parent pointer with each node, and on using simple …
[PDF][PDF] Reduced precision hardware for ray tracing
S Keely - Proc. High-Performance Graphics, 2014 - eng.utah.edu
Reduced Precision Hardware for Ray Tracing Page 1 Reduced Precision Hardware for Ray
Tracing Sean Keely University of Texas, Austin Page 2 Question Why don’t GPU’s accelerate …
Tracing Sean Keely University of Texas, Austin Page 2 Question Why don’t GPU’s accelerate …
Architectures for parallelized intersection testing and shading for ray-tracing rendering
LT Peterson, JA McCombe, RR Salsbury… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
Ray tracing scenes is accomplished using a plurality of inter section testing resources
coupled with a plurality of shading resources, communicative in the aggregate through …
coupled with a plurality of shading resources, communicative in the aggregate through …
Cache-oblivious ray reordering
B Moon, Y Byun, TJ Kim, P Claudio, HS Kim… - ACM Transactions on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We present a cache-oblivious ray reordering method for ray tracing. Many global
illumination methods such as path tracing and photon map** use ray tracing and generate …
illumination methods such as path tracing and photon map** use ray tracing and generate …
Ray tracing system architectures and methods
LT Peterson, JA McCombe, RR Salsbury… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Aspects comprise Systems implementing ray tracing func tionality according to example
architectures. In one example, rays are collected into collections against elements of an …
architectures. In one example, rays are collected into collections against elements of an …
Multi bounding volume hierarchies
M Ernst, G Greiner - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient tracing of single and incoherent rays is still a challenge in computer graphics.
Coherent packet tracing has reached real-time performance, but ray packets bring about …
Coherent packet tracing has reached real-time performance, but ray packets bring about …