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From: speer@cs.Colorado.EDU (Rick Speer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Hardware acceleration of ray tracing
Keywords: ray-tracing, vlsi, hardware
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Date: 16 Apr 91 10:04:02 GMT
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Rick Spanbauer (rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu) recently writes,

> Can anyone provide references to papers describing hardware
> acceleration techniques for ray tracing?  I've already looked
> through Glassners ray tracing book - most of the references
> are fairly old, eg 1983-1987.  I am particularly interested
> in any vlsi implementations of ray tracing support hardware.

Here's a possibly more complete list, containing at least a number
of more recent references. Hope it helps.

Rick

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1. "Ray Tracing on the SCRIP Machine",  by  R.  Popovic,  p.
387-96 in the Proceedings of the International Conference on
Parallel Computing '89, North-Holland, 1990.

2. "A VLSI chip for ray  tracing  bicubic  patches",  by  K.
Bouatouch,  Y.  Saouter  and  J.  C.  Candela,  p. 107-24 in
Proceedings of Eurographics '89, W. Hansmann, F. R. A.  Hop-
good and W. Strasser, Eds., Elsevier / North-Holland, 1989.

3. "Design for a  Real-Time  High-Quality  Volume  Rendering
Workstation",  by M. Levoy, p. 85-92 in Chapel Hill Workshop
on Volume Visualization, ACM  /  Univ.  of  North  Carolina,
1989.

4. "The Ray-Casting Machine", by G. Kedem and J.  L.  Ellis,
p.  378-401  in  Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and
Display, P. M. Dew, T. R. Heywood and R. A. Earnshaw,  Eds.,
Addison-Wesley, 1989.  [Also see Ref. #10 below.]

5. "Multiprocessor Experiments for High-Speed Ray  Tracing",
by S. Gaudet, R. Hobson, P. Chilka and T. Calvert, p. 151-79
in ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 7 no. 3 (July 1988).

6. "Towards a  Z-Buffer  and  Ray-Tracing  Multimode  System
Based on Parallel Architecture and VLSI Chips", by P. Leray,
p. 141-5 in Advances in Computer  Graphics  Hardware  I,  W.
Strasser, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1987.

7. "The Feasibility of a VLSI Chip for Ray  Tracing  Bicubic
Patches", by R. Pulleyblank and J. Kapenga, p. 33-44 in IEEE
Computer Graphics and  Applications  vol.  7  no.  3  (March
1987).  [Also see the next ref.]

8. "A VLSI Chip for Ray Tracing Bicubic Patches", by R. Pul-
leyblank  and  J. Kapenga, p. 125-40 in Advances in Computer
Graphics Hardware I W. Strasser, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1987.

9. "Ray Tracing  Rational  B-Spline  Patches  in  VLSI",  by
Bengt-Olaf  Schneider,  p.  47-63  in  Advances  in Computer
Graphics Hardware II, 1987.

10. "The Raycasting Machine" by G. Kedem and  J.  Ellis,  p.
533-38 in the Proceedings of the International Conference on
Computer Design, IEEE, 1984.


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