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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2009
Applicants:
Alexander Keller, Berlin, DE;
Carsten Waechter, Berlin, DE;
Inventors:
Alexander Keller, Berlin, DE;
Carsten Waechter, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Mental Images GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program code (software) products executable in a digital processor operable to simulate light transport in a scene by ray tracing (wherein the digital processor is operable to maintain an object list representing a list of objects associated with a boundary of the scene) include executing a ray tracing method that traces r rays through n objects by (1) partitioning the object list in a recursive manner to generate partitions and (2) culling away the partitions of objects from rays, without using an explicit auxiliary acceleration data structure.