An evaluation of parallel grid construction for ray tracing dynamic scenes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-55

  Ize, Thiago ^a   Wald, Ingo ^a   Robertson, Chelsea ^a   Parker, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic scenes; Grid; Interactive ray tracing; Parallel build; Scalability and performance; Sort middle

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCALABILITY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DYNAMIC SCENES; INTERACTIVE RAY TRACING; PARALLEL GRID CONSTRUCTION; SORT MIDDLE;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 42549145366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2006.280214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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