A high-speed ray tracing engine built on a field-programmable system

Proceedings - 2003 IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, FPT 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 188-195

  Fender, Joshua ^a   Rose, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLES; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; LIGHT RAYS; MULTI-FPGA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RAY TRACING;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 21944449442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPT.2003.1275747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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