State of the Art in Interactive Ray Tracing Page 1 State of the Art in Interactive Ray Tracing
Hardware Architectures for Ray Tracing Philipp Slusallek Saarland University, Germany Page 2 …

The most significant deficiency of most of today's interactive ray tracers is that they are
restricted to static walkthroughs. This restriction is due to the static nature of the acceleration …

Recursive ray tracing is a simple yet powerful and general approach for accurately
computing global light transport and rendering high quality images. While recent algorithmic …

Modern graphics hardware architectures excel at compute-intensive tasks such as ray-
triangle intersection, making them attractive target platforms for raytracing. To date, most …

Realtime ray tracing has recently established itself as a possible alternative to the current
rasterization approach for interactive 3D graphics. However, the performance of existing …

We present an efficient approach for interactive ray tracing of deformable or animated
models. Unlike many of the recent approaches for ray tracing static scenes, we use …

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Steering is a challenging task, required by nearly all agents in virtual worlds. There is a large
and growing number of approaches for steering, and it is becoming increasingly important to …

Recently developed interactive ray tracing systems combine the high performance of todays
CPUs with new algorithms and implementations to achieve a flexible and high-performance …

While contemporary approaches to SIMD ray tracing typically rely on traversing packets of
coherent rays through a binary data structure, we instead evaluate the alternative of …