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The Holodeck interactive ray cache.

Larson et al., 1999

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15162392494595447753
Author
Larson G
Simmons M
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SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications

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We present a new method for rendering complex environments using interactive, progressive, viewindependent, parallel ray tracing. A four-dimensional holodeck data structure serves as a rendering target and caching mechanism for interactive walk-throughs …
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