Toward real-time ray tracing: A survey on hardware acceleration and microarchitecture techniques

Y Deng, Y Ni, Z Li, S Mu, W Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2017 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing has long been considered as the next-generation technology for graphics
rendering. Recently, there has been strong momentum to adopt ray tracing--based …

A survey on bounding volume hierarchies for ray tracing

D Meister, S Ogaki, C Benthin, MJ Doyle… - Computer Graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Quicknn: Memory and performance optimization of kd tree based nearest neighbor search for 3d point clouds

R Pinkham, S Zeng, Z Zhang - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) has enabled the continued improvement in
accuracy and performance of autonomous navigation. The latest applications require …

PLOCTree: A fast, high-quality hardware BVH builder

T Viitanen, M Koskela, P Jääskeläinen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In the near future, GPUs are expected to have hardware support for real-time ray tracing in
order to, eg, help render complex lighting effects in video games and enable photorealistic …

Vibrio amylolyticus sp. nov. and Vibrio gelatinilyticus sp. nov., two marine bacteria isolated from surface seawater of Qingdao

P Zhang, X Wang, R Liu, X Zhu… - … of Systematic and …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Two Gram-stain-negative, oxidase-positive, facultative anaerobic and rod-shaped motile
bacteria, designated strains ZSDZ34 and ZSDE26, were isolated from offshore surface …

Extending GPU Ray-Tracing Units for Hierarchical Search Acceleration

A Barnes, F Shen, TG Rogers - 2024 57th IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Specialized ray-tracing acceleration units have become a common feature in GPU
hardware, enabling real-time ray-tracing of complex scenes for the first time. The ray-tracing …

Study on Spatio-Temporal Indexing Model of Geohazard Monitoring Data Based on Data Stream Clustering Algorithm

J Li, W Song, J Chen, Q Wei, J Wang - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Yunnan Province, residing in the eastern segment of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and the
western part of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, faces significant challenges due to its intricate …

MergeTree: A fast hardware HLBVH constructor for animated ray tracing

T Viitanen, M Koskela, P Jääskeläinen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing is a computationally intensive rendering technique traditionally used in offline
high-quality rendering. Powerful hardware accelerators have been recently developed that …

Apparatus and method for reduced precision bounding volume hierarchy construction

M Doyle, K Vaidyanathan - US Patent 11,321,910, 2022 - Google Patents
Apparatus and method for efficient BVH construction. For example, one embodiment of an
apparatus comprises: a memory to store graphics data for a scene including a plurality of …

Exploring human porphobilinogen synthase metalloprotein by quantum biochemistry and evolutionary methods

ED Barbosa, JXL Neto, DG Teixeira, KS Bezerra… - Metallomics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Previous studies have shown the porphobilinogen synthase (PBGS) zinc-binding
mechanism and its conservation among the living cells. However, the precise molecular …