Embree: A kernel framework for efficient CPU ray tracing

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wald, Ingo ^a   Woop, Sven ^a   Benthin, Carsten ^a   Johnson, Gregory S ^a   Ernst, Manfred ^a,b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coprocessor; CPU; Ray tracing; SIMD; SPMD

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RAY TRACING; COPROCESSOR; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

CO-PROCESSORS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CPU; CPU ARCHITECTURE; SIMD; SPMD; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TRACING FRAMEWORK; DESIGN GOAL; OPEN-SOURCE; PERFORMANCE;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); RAY TRACING;

EID: 84905731051     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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