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A Hierarchical Shadow Volume Algorithm
(The Eurographics Association, 2004)
The shadow volume algorithm is a popular technique for real-time shadow generation using graphics hardware. Its major disadvantage is that it is inherently fillrate-limited, as the performance is inversely proportional to ...
Fast Parallel Construction of High-Quality Bounding Volume Hierarchies
(ACM, 2013)
We propose a new massively parallel algorithm for constructing high-quality bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) for ray tracing. The algorithm is based on modifying an existing BVH to improve its quality, and executes in ...
On Quality Metrics of Bounding Volume Hierarchies
(ACM, 2013)
The surface area heuristic (SAH) is widely used as a predictor for ray tracing performance, and as a heuristic to guide the construction of spatial acceleration structures. We investigate how well SAH actually predicts ray ...
Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs
(ACM, 2013)
When programming for GPUs, simply porting a large CPU program into an equally large GPU kernel is generally not a good approach. Due to SIMT execution model on GPUs, divergence in control flow carries substantial performance ...