RTfact: Generic concepts for flexible and high performance ray tracing

RT'08 - IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2008, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-122

  Georgiev, Iliyan ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

I.3.7 computer graphics : three dimensional graphics and realism raytracing

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT ORIENTED; COUPLED ALGORITHMS; EXISTING CODES; GENERIC DESIGNS; I.3.7 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM - RAYTRACING; INTERACTIVE RAY TRACINGS; LIGHTING EFFECTS; NEW ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATIONS; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; RAY COHERENCES; RENDERING ENGINES; RUNTIME PERFORMANCES; SHADING MODELS; TEMPLATE LIBRARIES; TRACING FRAMEWORKS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; FILE ORGANIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 56649113136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2008.4634631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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