Maximizing Parallelism in the Construction of BVHs, Octrees, and k-d Trees

Karras, Tero

Maximizing Parallelism in the Construction of BVHs, Octrees, and k-d Trees

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2012

Authors

Karras, Tero

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The Eurographics Association

Abstract

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 shortcoming with these methods is that they construct levels of the tree sequentially, which limits the amount of parallelism that they can achieve. We present a novel approach that improves scalability by constructing the entire tree in parallel. Our main contribution is an in-place algorithm for constructing binary radix trees, which we use as a building block for other types of trees.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGGH/HPG12/033-037
,
booktitle = {Eurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics
},
editor = {Carsten Dachsbacher and Jacob Munkberg and Jacopo Pantaleoni
},
title = {{Maximizing Parallelism in the Construction of BVHs, Octrees, and k-d Trees
}},
author = {Karras, Tero
},
year = {2012
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {2079-8679
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-41-5
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGGH/HPG12/033-037
}
}