D. E. Orcutt
ABSTRACT
This preliminary report presents one implementation of a ray tracing system. The ray tracing system was divided and distributed onto the hypercube based on the data to be processed. The implementation which includes a dynamic load balancing scheme will be shown to be very efficient for large scenes.
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Index Terms
- Implementation of Ray tracing on the hypercube
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