Interactive ray tracing of free-form surfaces

ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Visualisation in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 99-106

  Benthin, Carsten ^a   Wald, Ingo ^b   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERFORMANCE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FREE-FORM SURFACES; SOFTWARE RAY TRACING;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 29144475113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1029949.1029968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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