Rethinking graphics and gaming courses because of fast ray tracing

ACM SIGGRAPH 2007: Educators Program

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shirley, Peter ^a   Sung, Kelvin ^b   Brunvand, Erik ^a   Davis, Alan ^a   Parker, Steven ^a   Boulos, Solomon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; FAST RAY TRACING; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; VISIBILITY CALCULATION; VISUAL QUALITIES; Z-BUFFER;

ALGORITHMS; EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VISIBILITY;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84869464578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282040.1282056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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