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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2016
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tero Tapani Karras, Helsinki, FI;
Timo Oskari Aila, Tuusula, FI;
Samuli Matias Laine, Vantaa, FI;
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, computer readable medium, and method are disclosed for performing an intersection query between a query beam and a target bounding volume. The target bounding volume may comprise an axis-aligned bounding box (AABB) associated with a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) tree. An intersection query comprising beam information associated with the query beam and slab boundary information for a first dimension of a target bounding volume is received. Intersection parameter values are calculated for the first dimension based on the beam information and the slab boundary information and a slab intersection case is determined for the first dimension based on the beam information. A parametric variable range for the first dimension is assigned based on the slab intersection case and the intersection parameter values and it is determined whether the query beam intersects the target bounding volume based on at least the parametric variable range for the first dimension.