Multi-Layer Alpha Tracing

dc.contributor.author	Brüll, Felix	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Grosch, Thorsten	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Krüger, Jens and Niessner, Matthias and Stückler, Jörg	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-27T18:13:49Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-27T18:13:49Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Rendering many transparent surfaces in real-time is still an open problem. We introduce two techniques for fast transparency rendering with ray tracing hardware, one being exact and the other being approximate but of high quality. Our approximate technique is called Multi-Layer Alpha Tracing, operates in bounded memory and is up to 60% faster than naive ray traversal. It outperforms existing rasterization techniques in terms of image quality and performance while maintaining a small memory footprint. It can also be used to accelerate ray tracing of transparent objects for the reflected rays.	en_US
dc.description.sectionheaders	Rendering and Modeling
dc.description.seriesinformation	Vision, Modeling, and Visualization
dc.identifier.doi	10.2312/vmv.20201183
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-03868-123-6
dc.identifier.pages	9-17
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.2312/vmv.20201183
dc.identifier.uri	https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/vmv20201183
dc.publisher	The Eurographics Association	en_US
dc.subject	Computing methodologies
dc.subject	Ray tracing
dc.subject	Rasterization
dc.subject	Visibility
dc.title	Multi-Layer Alpha Tracing	en_US