Recently a breakthrough has occurred in graphics hardware: fixed function pipelines have been replaced with programmable vertex and fragment processors. In the near future, the gr...
Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, Pat...
We present a modified photon mapping algorithm capable of running entirely on GPUs. Our implementation uses breadth-first photon tracing to distribute photons using the GPU. The...
Timothy J. Purcell, Craig Donner, Mike Cammarano, ...
The NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine is a programmable system designed for NVIDIA GPUs and other highly parallel architectures. The OptiX engine builds on the key observation ...
Steven G. Parker, James Bigler, Andreas Dietrich, ...
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
Josef B. Spjut, Solomon Boulos, Daniel Kopta, Erik...
We introduce hybrid rendering, a scheme that dynamically ray traces the local geometry of reflective and refractive objects, but approximates more distant geometry by hardwaresupp...