We review the treatment of trimmed geometries in the context of design, data exchange, and
computational simulation. Such models are omnipresent in current engineering modeling …

Ray tracing has long been a method of choice for off‐line rendering, but traditionally was too
slow for interactive use. With faster hardware and algorithmic improvements this has recently …

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 …

We present an algorithm for constructing kd-trees on GPUs. This algorithm achieves real-
time performance by exploiting the GPU's streaming architecture at all stages of kd-tree …

We discuss the mapping of elementary ray tracing operations---acceleration structure
traversal and primitive intersection---onto wide SIMD/SIMT machines. Our focus is on …

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 …

This book provides a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It
discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a …

Though a large variety of efficiency structures for ray tracing exist, kd-trees today seem to
slowly become the method of choice. In particular, kd-trees built with cost estimation …

Visibility algorithms for walkthrough and related applications have grown into a significant
area, spurred by the growth in the complexity of models and the need for highly interactive …