Project 2 Help Notes

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1999
 

Outline

Assignment overview

Project 2 Requirements

Acceleration Techniques (Overview)

This is just an outline of the material in Chapter 6 of Glassner's raytracing book, "A Survey of Ray Tracing Acceleration Techniques," by James Arvo and David Kirk.

Major Acceleration Techniques

These techniques can change the asymptotic order of your program, and give huge savings for large scenes.

Moderate Acceleration Techniques

These are techniques that can greatly improve a raytracer under certain conditions. However, they have only limited applicability to project 2, where we're already optimizing intersections, and only casting one ray per pixel.

Minor Acceleration Techniques

These techniques only change the running time by a constant factor, but many are easy to implement.
Text by Lucas Periera

Minor modifications by Tamara Munzner
Last updated by lena@graphics
Copyright © 1998 Marc Levoy
Wednesday, 05-May-1999 12:16:16 PDT