Faster incoherent rays: Multi-BVH ray stream tracing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-158

  Tsakok, John A ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Incoherent rays; Mbvh; Mbvh rs; Path tracing; Qbvh; Ray tracing; Ray traversal; Real time

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING FACTORS; CPU ARCHITECTURE; CURRENT GENERATION; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGHER ORDER; INCOHERENT RAYS; PATH TRACING; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; RAY METHOD; REAL TIME; SINGLE RAYS; TARGET APPLICATION;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES;

EID: 70450183915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1572769.1572793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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