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2008-02-19
A Novel Hybrid Approach to Ray Tracing Acceleration Based on Pre-Processing & Bounding Volumes
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 82, 19-32, 2008
Abstract
Ray tracing has been successfully usedin prediction of wave propagation models in recent years. Although this method has its own obvious benefits, it suffers from a big problem: slow performance. In this paper, novel methods are proposed in which the main focus is on reducing the number of ray-facet intersections. First a preprocessing methodis proposed which reduces the number of ray-facet intersection tests dramatically. Later this method is combined with a volume bounding algorithm to make improvements in the speed of ray-tracing simulations, even more.
Citation
Nima Sedaghat Alvar, Ayaz Ghorbani, and Hamid Reza Amin Davar, "A Novel Hybrid Approach to Ray Tracing Acceleration Based on Pre-Processing & Bounding Volumes," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 82, 19-32, 2008.
doi:10.2528/PIER08013007
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