Object partitioning considered harmful: Space subdivision for BVHs

Proceedings of the HPG 2009: Conference on High-Performance Graphics 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-22

  Popov, Stefan ^a   Georgiev, Iliyan ^a   Dimov, Rossen ^a   Slusallek, Philipp ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration structures; Bounding volume hierarchies; Construction; Ray tracing; Surface area heuristic

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION STRUCTURES; BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES; CONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; GENERIC ALGORITHM; I.3.6 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - GRAPHICS DATA STRUCTURES AND DATA TYPES; I.3.7 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM - RAYTRACING; K-D TREE; OPTIMAL PARTITIONS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; SPACE PARTITIONING; SPACE SUBDIVISION; SURFACE AREA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTITIONS (BUILDING); POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RAY TRACING; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70450181238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1572769.1572772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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