SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
An improved illumination model for shaded display
Communications of the ACM
LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
Interactive k-d tree GPU raytracing
Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games
Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics 2009
Understanding the efficiency of ray traversal on GPUs
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics 2009
OptiX: a general purpose ray tracing engine
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
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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 observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of programmable operations. Consequently, the core of OptiX is a domain-specific just-in-time compiler that generates custom ray tracing kernels by combining user-supplied programs for ray generation, material shading, object intersection, and scene traversal. This enables the implementation of a highly diverse set of ray tracing-based algorithms and applications, including interactive rendering, offline rendering, collision detection systems, artificial intelligence queries, and scientific simulations such as sound propagation. OptiX achieves high performance through a compact object model and application of several ray tracing-specific compiler optimizations. For ease of use it exposes a single-ray programming model with full support for recursion and a dynamic dispatch mechanism similar to virtual function calls.