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Data parallelization of Kd-tree ray tracing on the Cell Broadband Engine

Pang et al., 2009

Document ID
15342286024079877030
Author
Pang Y
Sun L
Yang S
Publication year
Publication venue
2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

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Ray tracing is a widely used rendering technique in computer graphics, and its intense computational requirement prohibits real-time ray tracing applications wide use in consumer markets. One main feature of ray tracing is parallelism and the mainstream computer market …
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