RAY TRACING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS

• Main Authors: PETERSON, Luke, Tilman, MCCOMBE, James Alexander, SALSBURY, Ryan R, CLOHSET, Steven, John
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 01.04.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

Aspects comprise systems implementing ray tracing functionality according to example architectures. In one example, rays are collected into collections against elements of an acceleration structure, which in some cases are associated with objects composing a scene being ray traced. Indications of de...