Ray Tracing with the Single Slab Hierarchy

Bounding volume hierarchies have become a very popular way to speed up ray tracing. In this paper we present a novel traversal and approximation scheme for bounding volume hierarchies, which is comparable in speed, has a very compact traversal algorithm and uses only 25% of the memory, compared to a standard bounding volume hierarchy.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: VMV
• Authors: Martin Eisemann, Christian Woizischke, Marcus A. Magnor
• Keywords: Bounding Volume Hierarchies, Bounding Volume Hierarchy, Compact Traversal Algorithm, Visualization, VMV 2008