The interaction of light and matter in the world surrounding us is of striking complexity and
beauty. Since the very beginning of computer graphics, adequate modelling of these …

The behavior of daylight inside built settings, though complex, is well understood; and over
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …

Computerized room acoustics modeling has been practiced for almost 50 years up to date.
These modeling techniques play an important role in room acoustic design nowadays, often …

We describe Embree, an open source ray tracing framework for x86 CPUs. Embree is
explicitly designed to achieve high performance in professional rendering environments in …

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 …

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Ray tracing is an inherent part of photorealistic image synthesis algorithms. The problem of
ray tracing is to find the nearest intersection with a given ray and scene. Although this …

Training AI agents to perform complex tasks in simulated worlds requires millions to billions
of steps of experience. To achieve high performance, today's fastest simulators for training AI …

In this paper we examine the possibilities of using voxel representations as a generic way
for expressing complex and feature-rich geometry on current and future GPUs. We present …

A number of methods for constructing bounding volume hierarchies and point-based octrees
on the GPU are based on the idea of ordering primitives along a space-filling curve. A major …