Massive-Model Rendering Techniques: A Tutorial
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Technical strategies for massive model visualization
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Solid and physical modeling
Two-level ray tracing with reordering for highly complex scenes
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2010
Memory efficient ray tracing with hierarchical mesh quantization
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2010
Architecture considerations for tracing incoherent rays
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry
Shallow bounding volume hierarchies for fast SIMD ray tracing of incoherent rays
EGSR'08 Proceedings of the Nineteenth Eurographics conference on Rendering
ReduceM: interactive and memory efficient ray tracing of large models
EGSR'08 Proceedings of the Nineteenth Eurographics conference on Rendering
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We present a novel hierarchical representation, Ray-Strips, for interactive ray tracing of complex triangle meshes. Prior optimized algorithms for ray tracing explicitly store each triangle in the input model. Instead, a Ray-Strip takes advantage of mesh connectivity for compact storage, efficient traversal and ray intersections. As a result, we considerably reduce the memory overhead of the original model and the hierarchical representation. We also present efficient algorithms for single ray and ray packet traversal using Ray-Strips. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our representation can utilize the SIMD capabilities of current CPUs for incoherent ray packets and single rays. We show the benefit of Ray-Strips on models with tens of thousands to tens of millions of triangles. In practice, our approach can reduce the storage overhead of interactive ray tracing algorithms by up to five times compared to standard approaches. Moreover, we improve the runtime performance of ray tracing on large models.