Stackless KD-tree traversal for high performance GPU ray tracing

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-424

  Popov, Stefan ^a   Günther, Johannes ^b   Seidel, Hans Peter ^b   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

COMPLEX SCENES; RAY TRACERS; SECONDARY RAYS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; K-D TREE; MEMORY MODELING; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; REALTIME RAY TRACINGS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 35348961554     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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