VoxelPipe: A Programmable Pipeline for 3D Voxelization
Abstract
We present a highly exible and e cient software pipeline for programmable triangle voxelization. The pipeline, entirely written in CUDA, supports both fully conservative and thinvoxelizations, multiple boolean, oating point, vector-typed render targets, user-de ned vertex and fragment shaders, and a bucketing mode which can be used to generate 3D A-bu ers containing the entire list of fragments belonging to each voxel. For maximum e ciency, voxelization is implemented as a sort-middle tile-based rasterizer, while the A-bu er mode, essentially performing 3D binning of triangles over uniform grids, uses a sort-last pipeline. Despite its major exibility, the performance of our tile-based rasterizer is always competitive with and sometimes more than an order of magnitude superior to that of state-of-the-artbinary voxelizers, whereas our bucketing system is up to 4 times faster than previous implementations. In both cases the results have been achieved through the use of carefulload-balancing and high performance sorting primitives.
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@inproceedings{10.1145:2018323.2018339,
booktitle = {Eurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics},
editor = {Carsten Dachsbacher and William Mark and Jacopo Pantaleoni},
title = {{VoxelPipe: A Programmable Pipeline for 3D Voxelization}},
author = {Pantaleoni, Jacopo},
year = {2011},
publisher = {ACM},
ISSN = {2079-8687},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-0896-0},
DOI = {10.1145/2018323.2018339}
}