Interactive Ray Tracing of Point-based Models

Wald, Ingo; Seidel, Hans-Peter

Interactive Ray Tracing of Point-based Models

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009-016.pdf (3.15 MB)

Date

2005

Authors

Wald, Ingo
Seidel, Hans-Peter

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Point-based methods have recently gained significant interest, as their simplicity and independence of connectivity make them a simple and powerful tool in both modelling and rendering. Still, their use for high-quality and photorealistic rendering is still in its infancy, in particular for interactive applications. This paper describes a framework for interactively ray tracing point-based models based on a combination of an implicit surface representation, an efficient surface intersection algorithm, and a specially designed acceleration structure. Using this framework allows for interactively ray tracing even highly complex models on a single PC, including global illumination effects and the interactive visualization of a 24-million-point model with ray traced shadows.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/SPBG/SPBG05/009-016
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics (2005)
},
editor = {Marc Alexa and Szymon Rusinkiewicz and Mark Pauly and Matthias Zwicker
},
title = {{Interactive Ray Tracing of Point-based Models
}},
author = {Wald, Ingo and 
Seidel, Hans-Peter
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1811-7813
},
ISBN = {3-905673-20-7
},
DOI = {/10.2312/SPBG/SPBG05/009-016
}
}