公开(公告)号：US12198255B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US18471651

申请日：2023-09-21

Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION

Inventor： Samuli Laine ,  Timo Aila ,  Tero Karras ,  Gregory Muthler ,  William P. Newhall, Jr. ,  Ronald C Babich, Jr. ,  Craig Kolb ,  Ignacio Llamas ,  John Burgess

IPC: G06T15/06 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06T17/00

Abstract: Methods and systems are described in some examples for changing the traversal of an acceleration data structure in a highly dynamic query-specific manner, with each query specifying test parameters, a test opcode and a mapping of test results to actions. In an example ray tracing implementation, traversal of a bounding volume hierarchy by a ray is performed with the default behavior of the traversal being changed in accordance with results of a test performed using the test opcode and test parameters specified in the ray data structure and another test parameter specified in a node of the bounding volume hierarchy. In an example implementation a traversal coprocessor is configured to perform the traversal of the bounding volume hierarchy.