CONTEXT-AWARE COMPRESSION WITH QUANTIZATION OF HIERARCHICAL TRANSFORM MATRICES

    公开(公告)号:US20200211231A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16235672

    申请日:2018-12-28

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for context-aware compression. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray traversal/intersection circuitry to traverse rays through a hierarchical acceleration data structure to identify intersections between rays and primitives of a graphics scene; matrix compression circuitry/logic to compress hierarchical transformation matrices to generate compressed hierarchical transformation matrices by quantizing N-bit floating point data elements associated with child transforms of the hierarchical transformation matrices to variable-bit floating point numbers or integers comprising offsets from a parent transform of the child transform; and an instance processor to generate a plurality of instances of one or more base geometric objects in accordance with the compressed hierarchical transformation matrices.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERAL RAY TRACING QUERIES

    公开(公告)号:US20200211261A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16235744

    申请日:2018-12-28

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for general ray tracing queries. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a hierarchical acceleration data structure generator to construct an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes associated with a graphics scene; traversal/intersection hardware logic to traverse one or more rays through the acceleration data structure to determine intersections between the one or more rays and one or more primitives within the hierarchical acceleration data structure; shape processing hardware logic to specify three dimensional (3D) shape data indicating one or more 3D shapes to be used to perform queries with respect to the hierarchical acceleration data structure; query processing hardware logic to execute queries comprising comparisons between nodes of the hierarchical acceleration data structure and the 3D shape data to generate a result indicating overlap between the 3D shapes and the nodes.

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