Ray tracing on programmable graphics hardware

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 703-712

  Purcell, Timothy J ^a   Buck, Ian ^a   Mark, William R ^a,b   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

programmable graphics hardware; ray tracing

Indexed keywords

FEED-FORWARD; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PIPELINE; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HYBRID RENDERING; MULTI-PASS; PATH TRACING; PROGRAMMABILITY; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARES; PROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE; RAY CASTING; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; STREAM PROCESSOR;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINES; RAY TRACING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 77953828220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566570.566640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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