SaarCOR - A hardware architecture for ray tracing

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 27-36

  Schmittler, Jörg ^a   Wald, Ingo ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

INTERACTIVE RAY TRACING; LOW MEMORY BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS; REAL TIME RAY TRACING; REGISTER TRANSFER LEVEL;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0036954151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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