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Speed-up ray intersection by using BVH #6

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AnEnigmaticBug opened this issue Jan 29, 2022 · 0 comments
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Speed-up ray intersection by using BVH #6

AnEnigmaticBug opened this issue Jan 29, 2022 · 0 comments
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For scenes with lots of objects, the raytracer will spend a good chunk of the time performing ray intersections. If we speed this up, we should see a noticeable reduction in execution times.

BVHs (wikipedia, pbrt) are a common approach for ray intersection acceleration.
@AnEnigmaticBug AnEnigmaticBug added the enhancement New feature or request label Jan 29, 2022
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Add Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes (AABBs)
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They are currently unused. They'll be used when we implement BVH.

See #6
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