Abstract

Ray tracing is a well-know technique for producing realistic graphics. However, the time necessary to generate images is unacceptably long. When producing the many frames that are necessary for animations, the time is magnified. Many methods have been proposed to reduce the calculations necessary in ray tracing. Much of the effort has attempted to reduce the number of rays cast or to reduce the number of intersection calculations. Both of these techniques exploit spatial coherence. These acceleration techniques are expanded not only to exploit spatial coherence but also to exploit temporal coherence in order to reduce calculations by treating animation information as a whole as opposed to isolating calculations to each individual frame. Techniques for exploiting temporal coherence are explored along with associated temporal bounding methods. By first ray tracing a temporally expanded scene, we are able to avoid traversal calculations in associated frames where object intersection is limited. This reduces the rendering times of the associated frames.

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Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Computer Science

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