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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2008
Applicants:
Carsten Waechter, Berlin, DE;
Alexander Keller, Berlin, DE;
Inventors:
Carsten Waechter, Berlin, DE;
Alexander Keller, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Mental Images GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, devices and computer program code (software) products operable within a computer graphics system or other computer system enable quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) light transport simulation by ray tracing: and include constructing a bounding interval hierarchy (BIH), within a computer, using quantized planes to reduce memory requirements while maintaining a selected degree of precision.