A survey of algorithms for construction of optimal Heterogeneous Bounding Volume Hierarchies

Fast BVH Construction on GPUs

We present two novel parallel algorithms for rapidly constructing bounding volume hierarchies on manycore GPUs. The first uses a linear ordering derived from spatial Morton codes to build hierarchies extremely quickly and with high parallel scalability. The second is a top-down approach that uses the surface area heuristic (SAH) to build hierarchies optimized for fast ray tracing. Both algorith...

An Introduction to Approximating Heterogeneous Bounding Volume Hierarchies

Adaptive Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Efficient Collision Queries

The need for efficient interference detection frequently arises in computer graphics, robotics, virtual prototyping, surgery simulation, computer games, and visualization. To prevent bodies passing directly through each other, the simulation system must be able to track touching or intersecting geometric primitives. In interactive simulations, in which millions of geometric primitives may be in...

Kinetic Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Collision Detection of Deformable Objects

We present novel algorithms for updating bounding volume hierarchies of objects undergoing arbitrary deformations. Therefore, we introduce two new data structures, the kinetic AABB tree and the kinetic BoxTree. The event-based approach of the kinetic data structures framework enables us to show that our algorithms are optimal in the number of updates. Moreover, we show a lower bound for the tot...

Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Hair Simulation

We study the practicability and performance of different classes of bounding volume hierarchies for self collision detection in complex human hair styles with authentic geometrical properties. In particular, we focus on topology based hierarchies which allow for fast update schemes as well as conventional spatially adapted hierarchies. In this context, we introduce a parameterized k-DOP approac...