GI-Cube: An Architecture for Volumetric Global Illumination and Rendering

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2000
Authors
Dachille, Frank
Kaufman, Arie
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The power and utility of volume rendering is increased by global illumination. We present a hardware architecture, GI-Cube, designed to accelerate volume rendering, empower volumetric global illumination, and enable a host of ray-based volumetric processing. The algorithm reorders ray processing based on a partitioning of the volume. A cache enables efficient processing of coherent rays within a hardware pipeline. We study the flexibility and performance of this new architecture using both high and low level simulations.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGGH/EGGH00/119-129
,
booktitle = {
SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {
I. Buck and G. Humphreys and P. Hanrahan
},
title = {{
GI-Cube: An Architecture for Volumetric Global Illumination and Rendering
}},
author = {
Dachille, Frank
 and 
Kaufman, Arie
},
year = {
2000
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1727-3471
},
ISBN = {
1-58113-257-3
},
DOI = {
/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH00/119-129
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH00/119-129
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EGGH00: SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2000