Realtime ray tracing of dynamic scenes on an FPGA chip

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 95-106

  Schmittler, Jörg ^a   Woop, Sven ^a   Wagner, Daniel ^a   Paul, Wolfgang J ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; LIGHT SOURCES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

FRAMES PER SECONDS; MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCE; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME FRAME RATES; REALTIME RAY TRACINGS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSFORMATION UNITS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 33746151085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1058129.1058143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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