General calculations using graphics hardware, with application to interactive caustics

Chris Trendall (1) , James Stewart (2)

1 University of Toronto
2 iMAGIS - Models, Algorithms and Geometry for Computer Generated Image Graphics

Graphics hardware has been developed with image production in mind, but current hardware can be exploited for much more general computation. This paper shows that graphics hardware can perform general calculations, which accelerate the rendering process much earlier than at the latter image generation stages. An example is given of the real time calculation of refractive caustics

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Chris Trendall, James Stewart. General calculations using graphics hardware, with application to interactive caustics. Rendering Techniques '00, Eurographics, 2000, Brno, Czech Republic. ⟨inria-00510058⟩