Acceleration Structures allow application developers to perform spatial queries against primitives and procedural geometry, which is useful for photorealistic visualizations, physics simulations, and video games. Independent hardware vendors such as AMD, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA have invested in providing hardware accelerated spatial queries in their recent ASIC products, which has popularized Microsoft DirectX Ray Tracing in the latest applications and games.
Alain Galvan,
AMD
This presentation will review the state of the art in acceleration structures and their evolution in computer graphics hardware.
Alain Galvan is a Member of Technical Staff at AMD, focused on improving the performance of ray traced applications on AMD Radeon hardware. His work focuses on real time rendering with ray tracing or raster/compute techniques, high performance heterogeneous computing with GPUs, cross-platform rendering, building plugin runtimes and compilers. Alain has a deep passion for computer graphics, be it research in ray tracing and real time rendering, designing libraries and tools to help solve challenging rendering problems, or teaching through interactive articles.