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Compressed Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Collision Detection & Proximity Query

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Abstract

We present a novel representation of compressed data structure for simultaneous bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversals like they appear for instance in collision detection & proximity query. The main idea is to compress bounding volume (BV) descriptors and cluster BVH into a smaller parts 'treelet' that fit into CPU cache while at the same time maintain random-access and automatic cache-aware data structure layouts. To do that, we quantify BV and compress 'treelet' using predictor-corrector scheme with the predictor at a specific node in the BVH based on the chain of BVs upwards.

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@article{arxiv.2012.05348,
  title  = {Compressed Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Collision Detection & Proximity Query},
  author = {Toni Tan and Rene Weller and Gabriel Zachmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05348},
  year   = {2020}
}
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