Fast kd-tree construction with an adaptive error-bounded heuristic

RT'06: IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 81-88

  Hunt, Warren ^a   Mark, William R ^a   Stoll, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Error; Heuristic; Kd tree

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HIERARCHICAL ACCELERATION STRUCTURES; KD-TREE CONSTRUCTION; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 42549138735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2006.280218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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