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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Martin Jon Irwin Fuller, Warwickshire, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system is configurable to access a precomputed topology associated with a mesh that comprises a plurality of object components. The precomputed topology defines a plurality of object component groups that each comprise a respective set of object components of the mesh. The system is configurable to determine a traversal likelihood metric associated with the mesh that indicates a likelihood that rays of a ray trace operation will traverse acceleration structure nodes representing object components of the mesh, and use the plurality of object component groups as inputs to construct an acceleration structure. When the traversal likelihood metric satisfies a threshold, leaf nodes of at least one intermediate node of the acceleration structure each comprise a respective object component of an object component group. When the traversal likelihood metric fails to satisfy the threshold, at least one leaf node of the acceleration structure comprises an object component group.