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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2022
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; computing one or more surface normals associated with intersections of the one or more rays with one or more surfaces, where computing each surface normal includes: computing a plurality of intermediate surface normals associated with a plurality of adjacent voxels of a grid, and interpolating the plurality of intermediate surface normals; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more surface normals.