A virtual memory architecture for real-time ray tracing hardware

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 693-699

  Schmittler, Jörg ^a   Leidinger, Alexander ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hardware architectures; Memory management; Real time ray tracing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING;

VIRTUAL MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 0142061577     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(03)00142-0     Document Type: Article

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