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GI-cube

Frank T. Dachille, Arie E. Kaufman

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The power and utility of volume rendering is increased by global illumination. We present a hardware architecture, GI-Cube, designed to accelerate volume rendering, empower volumetric global illumination, and enable a host of ray-based volumetric processing. The algorithm reorders ray processing based on a partitioning of the volume. A cache enables efficient processing of coherent rays within a hardware pipeline. We study the flexibility and performance of this new architecture using both high and low level simulations.

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Key concepts: Computer science, Rendering (computer graphics), Cache, Volume rendering, Architecture, Computer graphics (images), Volume (thermodynamics), Pipeline (software)