Accelerating Ray Tracing using Constrained Tetrahedralizations
dc.contributor.author | Lagae, Ares | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Dutre, Philip | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-21T17:06:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-21T17:06:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper we introduce the constrained tetrahedralization as a new acceleration structure for ray tracing. A constrained tetrahedralization of a scene is a tetrahedralization that respects the faces of the scene geometry. The closest intersection of a ray with a scene is found by traversing this tetrahedralization along the ray, one tetrahedron at a time. We show that constrained tetrahedralizations are a viable alternative to current acceleration structures, and that they have a number of unique properties that set them apart from other acceleration structures: constrained tetrahedralizations are not hierarchical yet adaptive; the complexity of traversing them is a function of local geometric complexity rather than global geometric complexity; constrained tetrahedralizations support deforming geometry without any effort; and they have the potential to unify several data structures currently used in global illumination. | en_US |
dc.description.number | 4 | en_US |
dc.description.seriesinformation | Computer Graphics Forum | en_US |
dc.description.volume | 27 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01269.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-8659 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pages | 1303-1312 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01269.x | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.title | Accelerating Ray Tracing using Constrained Tetrahedralizations | en_US |