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Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

General-relativistic radiative transfer (GRRT) calculations coupled with the calculation of geodesics in the Kerr spacetime are an essential tool for determining the images, spectra and light curves from matter in the vicinity of black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Hung-Yi Pu , Kiyun Yun , Ziri Younsi , Suk-Jin Yoon

Real-time global illumination is key to enabling more dynamic and physically realistic worlds in performance-critical applications such as games or any other applications with real-time constraints.Hardware-accelerated ray tracing in modern…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently released high-resolution images of accretion flows onto two supermassive black holes. Our physical understanding of these images depends on accuracy and precision of numerical models of plasma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Monika Moscibrodzka , Aristomenis Yfantis

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

Ray tracing on GPUs is becoming quite common these days. There are many publicly available documents on how to implement basic ray tracing on GPUs for spheres and implicit surfaces. We even have some general frameworks for ray tracing on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Toshiya Hachisuka

Ray tracing has been typically known as a graphics rendering method capable of producing highly realistic imagery and visual effects generated by computers. More recently the performance improvements in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Vinh Pham Van , Juan Fumero , Athanasios Stratikopoulos , Florin Blanaru , Christos Kotselidis

Penetration depth calculation quantifies the extent of overlap between two objects and is crucial in fields like simulations, the metaverse, and robotics. Recognizing its significance, efforts have been made to accelerate this computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 YoungWoo Kim , Sungmin Kwon , Duksu Kim

Gravitational lensing calculation using a direct inverse ray-shooting approach is a computationally expensive way to determine magnification maps, caustic patterns, and light-curves (e.g. as a function of source profile and size). However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Alexander C. Thompson , Christopher J. Fluke , David G. Barnes , Benjamin R. Barsdell

We present an improved inverse ray-shooting code based on GPUs for generating microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs for acceleration, we put the efforts in two aspects: (i) A standard circular lens plane is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Wenwen Zheng , Xuechun Chen , Guoliang Li , Hou-zun Chen

Fast and accurate integration of geodesics in Kerr spacetimes is an important tool in modeling the orbits of stars and the transport of radiation in the vicinities of black holes. Most existing integration algorithms employ Boyer-Lindquist…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Chi-kwan Chan , Lia Medeiros , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

Structural parameters are normally extracted from observed galaxies by fitting analytic light profiles to the observations. Obtaining accurate fits to high-resolution images is a computationally expensive task, requiring many model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

A recent trend in real-time rendering is the utilization of the new hardware ray tracing capabilities. Often, usage of a distance field representation is proposed as an alternative when hardware ray tracing is deemed too costly, and the two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Pieterjan Bartels , Takahiro Harada

This paper presents a realization of the approach to spatial 3D stereo of visualization of 3D images with use parallel Graphics processing unit (GPU). The experiments of realization of synthesis of images of a 3D stage by a method of trace…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , S. A. Zori

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

Since the discovery of RRATs, interest in single pulse radio searches has increased dramatically. Due to the large data volumes generated by these searches, especially in planned surveys for future radio telescopes, such searches have to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Alessio Magro

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Zhenwen Dai , Andreas Damianou , James Hensman , Neil Lawrence
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