MPI-I-2004-4-006

Faster ray tracing with SIMD shaft culling

Dmitriev, Kirill and Havran, Vlastimil and Seidel, Hans-Peter

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Abstract in LaTeX format:
This paper presents a generic technique for acceleration of ray tracing of
polygonal scenes. We propose scheduling rays in a way that forms pyramidal
shafts. We show that under certain conditions fulfilled by the corner rays
of a shaft, it is possible to immediately and conservatively answer
visibility queries for the inner rays without expensive ray traversal
through acceleration data structures (kd-tree in our case). We show that
the presented technique is suitable for primary, secondary, and shadow
rays.
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BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{DmitrievHavranSeidel2004, AUTHOR = {Dmitriev, Kirill and Havran, Vlastimil and Seidel, Hans-Peter}, TITLE = {Faster ray tracing with SIMD shaft culling}, TYPE = {Research Report}, INSTITUTION = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Informatik}, ADDRESS = {Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbr{\"u}cken, Germany}, NUMBER = {MPI-I-2004-4-006}, MONTH = {December}, YEAR = {2004}, ISSN = {0946-011X},}