Accelerating the Visualization of Gaps and Overlaps for Large and Dynamic Sphere Packings with Bounding Volume Hierarchies

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Simulation Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-45718-1_9 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 135-149

Author(s):

Feng Gu ◽

Zhixing Yang ◽

Michael Kolonko ◽

Thorsten Grosch

Keyword(s):

Sphere Packings ◽

Bounding Volume ◽

Bounding Volume Hierarchies

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Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Detecting Collision in Urban Simulation

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e602152011-014 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman ◽

Abdullah Bade ◽

Daut Daman ◽

Mohd Shahrizal Sunar

Keyword(s):

Bounding Volume ◽

Urban Simulation ◽

Bounding Volume Hierarchies

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A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing

Computer Graphics Forum ◽

10.1111/cgf.142662 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 683-712

Author(s):

Daniel Meister ◽

Shinji Ogaki ◽

Carsten Benthin ◽

Michael J. Doyle ◽

Michael Guthe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ray Tracing ◽

Bounding Volume ◽

Bounding Volume Hierarchies

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Hardware-Accelerated Dual-Split Trees

Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques ◽

10.1145/3406185 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Daqi Lin ◽

Elena Vasiou ◽

Cem Yuksel ◽

Daniel Kopta ◽

Erik Brunvand

Keyword(s):

Ray Tracing ◽

Hardware Acceleration ◽

Memory Storage ◽

Compact Representation ◽

Space Partitioning ◽

Data Movement ◽

Bounding Volume ◽

Bounding Boxes ◽

Split Trees ◽

Bounding Volume Hierarchies

Bounding volume hierarchies (BVH) are the most widely used acceleration structures for ray tracing due to their high construction and traversal performance. However, the bounding planes shared between parent and children bounding boxes is an inherent storage redundancy that limits further improvement in performance due to the memory cost of reading these redundant planes. Dual-split trees can create identical space partitioning as BVHs, but in a compact form using less memory by eliminating the redundancies of the BVH structure representation. This reduction in memory storage and data movement translates to faster ray traversal and better energy efficiency. Yet, the performance benefits of dual-split trees are undermined by the processing required to extract the necessary information from their compact representation. This involves bit manipulations and branching instructions which are inefficient in software. We introduce hardware acceleration for dual-split trees and show that the performance advantages over BVHs are emphasized in a hardware ray tracing context that can take advantage of such acceleration. We provide details on how the operations needed for decoding dual-split tree nodes can be implemented in hardware and present experiments in a number of scenes with different sizes using path tracing. In our experiments, we have observed up to 31% reduction in render time and 38% energy saving using dual-split trees as compared to binary BVHs representing identical space partitioning.

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