“Real Time Path-Tracing with NVIDIA RTX MegaGeometry” by Kraemer, Lacewell and Kanani
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Title:
- Real Time Path-Tracing with NVIDIA RTX MegaGeometry
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- Gaming & Entertainment
- Production & Animation
Description:
NVIDIA’s RTX Mega Geometry is a technology that accelerates Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) building, enabling path tracing of scenes with up to 100x more triangles. For the first time, we can apply global illumination to sub-pixel micro geometry in real time.
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[2] Brian Karis. 2021. A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry. In Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games. Association for Computing Machinery.
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