Erratum: Efficient ray sorting for the tracing of incoherent rays [IEICE Electronics Express Vol.9 (2012), No 9 pp 849-854]

Erratum: A novel cascade control replica-bitline delay technique for reducing timing process-variation of SRAM sense amplifier [IEICE Electronics Express Vol 12 (2015) No 5 pp 20150102]

A simple current-reversible chaotic jerk circuit using inherent tanh(x) of an opamp

A simple current-reversible chaotic jerk circuit is proposed and particularly demonstrates the use of inherently tanh(x) nonlinearity of a single opamp for a chaotic jerk circuit. No additionally nonlinear devices are required. Bifurcation is electronically tunable through a current source in a reversible direction. The largest Lyapunov exponent of either direction forms mirror images, whereas ...

Shallow Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Fast SIMD Ray Tracing of Incoherent Rays

Photorealistic image synthesis is a computationally demanding task that relies on ray tracing for the evaluation of integrals. Rendering time is dominated by tracing long paths that are very incoherent by construction. We therefore investigate the use of SIMD instructions to accelerate incoherent rays. SIMD is used in the hierarchy construction, the tree traversal and the leaf intersection. Thi...

Accelerating Occlusion Rendering on a GPU via Ray Classification

Accurately rendering occlusions is required when ray-tracing objects to achieve more realistic rendering of scenes. Indeed, soft phenomena such as shadows and ambient occlusion can be achieved with stochastic ray tracing techniques. However, computing randomized incoherent ray-object intersections can be inefficient. This is problematic in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) applications, where thre...

Efficient data management for incoherent ray tracing

To obtain good performance on the GPU hardware, it is necessary to design algorithms to manage data, access memory under GPU memory hierarchy, and schedule more efficient threads. In this paper, we propose an efficient data management and task management designed for GPU based ray tracing. Due to the dynamic and uncertainty in ray tracing, we design data-management layer and task-management lay...