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Screen-Space Far-Field Ambient Obscurance
(ACM, 2013)
Ambient obscurance (AO) is an effective approximation of global illumination, and its screen-space (SSAO) versions that operate on depth buffers only are widely used in real-time applications. We present an SSAO method ...
Efficient Divide-And-Conquer Ray Tracing using Ray Sampling
(ACM, 2013)
Divide-and-conquer ray tracing (DACRT) methods solve intersection problems between large numbers of rays and primitives by recursively subdividing the problem size until it can be easily solved. Previous DACRT methods ...
Efficient BVH Construction via Approximate Agglomerative Clustering
(ACM, 2013)
We introduce Approximate Agglomerative Clustering (AAC), an efficient, easily parallelizable algorithm for generating high-quality bounding volume hierarchies using agglomerative clustering. The main idea of AAC is to ...
Out-of-Core Construction of Sparse Voxel Octrees
(ACM, 2013)
Voxel-based rendering has recently received significant attention due to its potential in the context of efficiently rendering massively large and highly detailed scenes. Unfortunately, few or no scenes are available in ...
Imperfect Voxelized Shadow Volumes
(ACM, 2013)
Voxelized shadow volumes [Wyman 2011] provide a discretized view-dependent representation of shadow volumes, but are limited to point or directional lights. We extend them to allow dynamic volumetric visibility from area ...
An Energy and Bandwidth Efficient Ray Tracing Architecture
(ACM, 2013)
We propose two hardware mechanisms to decrease energy consumption on massively parallel graphics processors for ray tracing while keeping performance high. First, we use a streaming data model and configure part of the L2 ...
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 ...
SGRT: A Mobile GPU Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing
(ACM, 2013)
Recently, with the increasing demand for photorealistic graphics and the rapid advances in desktop CPUs/GPUs, real-time ray tracing has attracted considerable attention. Unfortunately, ray tracing in the current mobile ...
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 ...
PixelPie: Maximal Poisson-disk Sampling with Rasterization
(ACM, 2013)
We present PixelPie, a highly parallel geometric formulation of the Poisson-disk sampling problem on the graphics pipeline. Traditionally, generating a distribution by throwing darts and removing conflicts has been viewed ...