Ray Tracing Rational B-Spline Patches in VLSI

A VLSI architecture for the computation of NURBS patches

AVLSI Chip for Ray Tracing Bicubic Patches

A VLSI chip for ray tracing bicubic patches in Bezier form is explored. The purpose of the chip is to calculate the intersection point of a ray with the bicubic patch to a specified level of accuracy, returning the location of the intersection on the patch and on the ray. This is done by computing the intersection of the ray with a bounding volume of the patch and repeatedly subdividing the pat...

Accelerating Rendering of NURBS Surfaces by Using Hybrid Ray Tracing

In this paper we present a new method for accelerating ray tracing of scenes containing NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B-Spline) surfaces by exploiting the GPU’s fast z-buffer rasterization for regular triangle meshes. In combination with a lightweight, memory efficient data organization this allows for fast calculation of primary ray intersections using a Newton Iteration based approach executed ...

Efficient Ray Tracing of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces

The goal of this master thesis is to study, compare, and improve existing approaches for direct ray tracing trimmed NURBS surfaces. In order to be able to study the topic efficiently, a library for NURBS evaluation has been implemented. The library is supposed to be easily integrated in any ray tracing application to make it support direct ray tracing trimmed NURBS surfaces.

Practical Ray Tracing of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces

A system is presented for ray tracing trimmed NURBS surfaces. While approaches to components are drawn largely from existing literature, their combination within a single framework is novel. This paper also differs from prior work in that the details of an efficient implementation are fleshed out. Throughout, emphasis is placed on practical methods suitable to implementation in general ray trac...