Ray tracing on programmable graphics hardware

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 703-712

  Purcell, Timothy J ^a   Buck, Ian ^a   Mark, William R ^a   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Programmable graphics hardware; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE; RAY TRACING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036995749     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/566654.566640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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