Real-time KD-tree construction on graphics hardware

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Kun ^a,c   Hou, Qiming ^b   Wang, Rui ^a   Guo, Baining ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Kd tree; Photon mapping; Point cloud modeling; Programable graphics hardware; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SCENES; FAST EVALUATIONS; GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; GRAPHICS HARDWARES; HANDLING DYNAMICS; KD-TREE; NOVEL SCHEMES; PHOTON MAPPING; POINT CLOUD MODELING; PROGRAMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; REAL-TIME PERFORMANCES; STREAMING ARCHITECTURES; TREE ALGORITHMS; TREE CONSTRUCTIONS; TREE LEVELS; TREE NODES; TREE QUALITIES;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PHOTONS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 57749174539     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1409060.1409079     Document Type: Article

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