The ray engine

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 37-46

  Carr, Nathan A ^a   Hall, Jesse D ^a   Hart, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware acceleration; Pixel shaders; Ray caching; Ray classification; Ray coherence; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GEOMETRY ENGINE; PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING; PIXEL SHADER; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; RAY ENGINE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0036954765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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