A survey on bounding volume hierarchies for ray tracing
Ray tracing is an inherent part of photorealistic image synthesis algorithms. The problem of
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …
High performance and scalable radix sorting: A case study of implementing dynamic parallelism for GPU computing
D Merrill, A Grimshaw - Parallel Processing Letters, 2011 - World Scientific
The need to rank and order data is pervasive, and many algorithms are fundamentally
dependent upon sorting and partitioning operations. Prior to this work, GPU stream …
dependent upon sorting and partitioning operations. Prior to this work, GPU stream …
Revisiting sorting for GPGPU stream architectures
DG Merrill, AS Grimshaw - … of the 19th international conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This poster presents efficient strategies for sorting large sequences of fixed-length keys (and
values) using GPGPU stream processors. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our radix sorting …
values) using GPGPU stream processors. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our radix sorting …
[PDF][PDF] HLBVH: Hierarchical LBVH construction for real-time ray tracing of dynamic geometry
J Pantaleoni, D Luebke - Proceedings of the Conference on High …, 2010 - researchgate.net
We present HLBVH and SAH-optimized HLBVH, two high performance BVH construction
algorithms targeting real-time ray tracing of dynamic geometry. HLBVH provides a novel …
algorithms targeting real-time ray tracing of dynamic geometry. HLBVH provides a novel …
Manuka: A batch-shading architecture for spectral path tracing in movie production
The Manuka rendering architecture has been designed in the spirit of the classic reyes
rendering architecture: to enable the creation of visually rich computer generated imagery …
rendering architecture: to enable the creation of visually rich computer generated imagery …
Efficient incoherent ray traversal on GPUs through compressed wide BVHs
H Ylitie, T Karras, S Laine - Proceedings of High Performance Graphics, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present a GPU-based ray traversal algorithm that operates on compressed wide BVHs
and maintains the traversal stack in a compressed format. Our method reduces the amount …
and maintains the traversal stack in a compressed format. Our method reduces the amount …
SGRT: A mobile GPU architecture for real-time ray tracing
Recently, with the increasing demand for photorealistic graphics and the rapid advances in
desktop CPUs/GPUs, real-time ray tracing has attracted considerable attention …
desktop CPUs/GPUs, real-time ray tracing has attracted considerable attention …
Sorted deferred shading for production path tracing
C Eisenacher, G Nichols, A Selle… - Computer Graphics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ray‐traced global illumination (GI) is becoming widespread in production rendering but
incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory …
incoherent secondary ray traversal limits practical rendering to scenes that fit in memory …
Treelet prefetching for ray tracing
Ray tracing is traditionally only used in offline rendering to produce images of high fidelity
because it is computationally expensive. Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have …
because it is computationally expensive. Recent Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have …
Intersection prediction for accelerated GPU ray tracing
Ray tracing has been used for years in motion picture to generate photorealistic images
while faster raster-based shading techniques have been preferred for video games to meet …
while faster raster-based shading techniques have been preferred for video games to meet …