Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a ray traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 8,817,026, 2014 - Google Patents
the user specifies the location of the viewer, light sources, and a database of objects
including surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a ray traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 9,058,691, 2015 - Google Patents
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating
incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for lookahead flags to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 8,842,117, 2014 - Google Patents
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating
incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a grid traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 8,952,963, 2015 - Google Patents
the user specifies the location of the viewer, light sources, and a database of objects
including surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for triangle binning to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 9,035,946, 2015 - Google Patents
the user specifies the location of the viewer, light sources, and a database of objects
including surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for ray binning to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 8,947,447, 2015 - Google Patents
the user specifies the location of the viewer, light sources, and a database of objects
including surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for encoders to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 8,928,675, 2015 - Google Patents
the user specifies the location of the viewer, light sources, and a database of objects
including surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for packet binning to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 9,087,394, 2015 - Google Patents
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating
incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for encoders to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 9,619,923, 2017 - Google Patents
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating
incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by …

Computer hardware architecture and data structures for ray binning to support incoherent ray traversal

AD Zimmerman - US Patent 9,761,040, 2017 - Google Patents
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating
incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by …