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 …

Recently, with the increasing demand for photorealistic graphics and the rapid advances in
desktop CPUs/GPUs, real-time ray tracing has attracted considerable attention …

We present RayCore, a mobile ray-tracing hardware architecture. RayCore facilitates high-
quality rendering effects, such as reflection, refraction, and shadows, on mobile devices by …

Ray tracing has been used for years in motion picture to generate photorealistic images
while faster raster-based shading techniques have been preferred for video games to meet …

Ray tracing naturally supports high-quality global illumination effects, but it is
computationally costly. Traversal and intersection operations dominate the computation of …

Ray tracing can generate photorealistic images with more convincing visual effects
compared to rasterization. Recent hardware advances have enabled ray tracing to be …

Hardware acceleration for ray tracing has been a topic of great interest in computer
graphics. However, even with proposed custom hardware, the inherent irregularity in the …

Reduced precision bounding volume hierarchies and ray traversal can significantly improve
the efficiency of ray tracing through low-cost dedicated hardware. A key approach to …

We propose two hardware mechanisms to decrease energy consumption on massively
parallel graphics processors for ray tracing while kee** performance high. First, we use a …