Publications related to the OpenRT Interactive Ray Tracing Project

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The OpenRT project originated from the RTRT realtime-raytracing project of the University of Saarbruecken (http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de). Though its scope is much wider than that of RTRT, the original RTRT implementation still provides the core of our current implementation of the OpenRT interface. Therefore, we have also put some of the original RTRT papers on this web site in order to to give an overview of the whole system.

• Terrain Guided Multi-Level Instancing of Highly Complex Plant Populations
  Andreas Dietrich, Gerd Marmitt, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006
  Salt Lake City, USA, September 18-20, 2006
  [bib] [pdf] [divx avi] [slides]
  
  
   
• Applying Ray Tracing for Virtual Reality and Industrial Design
  Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Efremov, Tim Dahmen, Johannes Günther, Vlastimil Havran, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006
  Salt Lake City, USA, September 18-20, 2006
  [bib] [pdf] [slides]
  
  
   
• Effcient Acquisition and Realistic Rendering of Car Paint
  Johannes Günther, Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2005,
  Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005
  [bib], [pdf] [video (xvid)] [Web Site]
  
  
   
• Faster Isosurface Ray Tracing using Implicit KD-Trees
  Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Gerd Marmitt, Philipp Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2005
  [pdf]
  
  
   
• Techniques for Interactive Ray Tracing of Bezier Surfaces
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  To appear at journal of graphics tools, 2005
   
• Large-Scale CAD Model Visualization on a Scalable Shared-Memory Architecture
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2005, pp. 303-310
  Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005
  [bib] [pdf] [poster (pdf)]
  
  
   
• Recent Advancements in Ray-Tracing based Volume Rendering Techniques
  Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2005,
  Erlangen, Germany, November 16-18, 2005 (to appear)
  
  
   
• Realistic and Interactive Visualization of High-Density Plant Ecosystems
  Andreas Dietrich, Carsten Colditz, Oliver Deussen, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2005, pp. 73-81
  Dublin, Ireland, August 30, 2005
  [bib] [pdf] [divx avi] [slides]
  
  
   
• RPU: A Programmable Ray Processing Unit for Realtime Ray Tracing
  Sven Woop, Jörg Schmittler, and Philipp Slusallek
  to appear at SIGGRAPH 2005,
  Siggraph, Los Angeles, July 31th - August 04th, 2005
  [bib], [pdf], [Web site]
  
  
   
• Precomputed Light Sets for Fast High Quality Global Illumination
  Johannes Günther, Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Sketches and Applications,
  Los Angeles, USA, July 32 - August 4, 2005
  [bib] [pdf]
  
  
   
• Interactive Ray Tracing of Point Based Models
  Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Sketches and Applications,
  Los Angeles, USA, July 32 - August 4, 2005
  [bib] [pdf]
  
  
   
• Interactive Ray Tracing of Point Based Models
  Ingo Wald, and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Proceedings of Symposium on Point Based Graphics 2005,
  Stony Brook, New York, USA, June 21-22, 2005
  [bib] [pdf]
  
  
   
• Realtime Ray Tracing and Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald
  Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2005,
  GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), 2005
  [bib] [pdf]
  
  
   
• Kaustik-Berechnung in Echtzeit
  Johannes Günther, and Ingo Wald
  Cover Image, GI Informatik Spektrum 28(2),
  April 2005
  [bib] [Web Site] [about the cover (german)]
  
  
   
• Fast and Accurate Ray-Voxel Intersection Techniques for Iso-Surface Ray Tracing
  Gerd Marmitt, Andreas Kleer, Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Vision, Modelling, and Visualization (VMV) 2004,
  Stanford (CA), USA, November 16-18, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [poster (pdf)]
  
  
   
• Interactive Ray Tracing of Free-Form Surfaces
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Afrigraph 2004,
  Stellenbosch (Cape Town), South Africa, November 3-5, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [ppt]
   
• Interactive Mixed Reality Rendering in a Distributed Ray Tracing Framework
  Andreas Pomi, and Philipp Slusallek
  IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Student Colloquium,
  Arlington, USA, November 2-5, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [poster (pdf)]
  
  
   
• Interactive In-Shader Image-Based Visual Hull Reconstruction and Compositing of Actors in a Distributed Ray Tracing Framework
  Andreas Pomi, Simon Hoffmann, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of 1. Workshop VR/AR,
  Chemnitz, Germany, September 27-28, 2004
  [bib] [pdf]
   
• Balancing Considered Harmful -- Faster Photon Mapping using the Voxel Volume Heuristic
  Ingo Wald, Johannes Guenther, and Philipp Slusallek
  Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), 2004, (Proceedings of Eurographics),
  Grenoble, France, August 30 - September 3, 2004
  [bib] [pdf]
  
  
   
• Realtime Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes on an FPGA Chip
  Jörg Schmittler, Sven Woop, Daniel Wagner, Wolfgang J. Paul, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2004,
  Grenoble, France, August 28th-29th, 2004
  [bib], [pdf], [slides], [Web site for this paper]
  
  
   
• Interactive Visualization of Exceptionally Complex Industrial CAD Datasets
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Sketches and Applications,
  Los Angeles, USA, August 8-12, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [ppt] [video 1 (divx avi)] [video 2 (divx avi)]
  
  
   
• An Interactive Out-of-Core Rendering Framework for Visualizing Massively Complex Models
  Ingo Wald, Andreas Dietrich, and Philipp Slusallek
  Rendering Techniques 2004, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering,
  Norrköping, Sweden, June 21-23, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [ppt] [divx avi]
  
  
   
• Realtime Caustics using Distributed Photon Mapping
  Johannes Guenther, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Rendering Techniques 2004, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering,
  Norrköping, Sweden, June 21-23, 2004
  [bib] [pdf] [ppt] [divx avi]
  
  
   
• VRML Scene Graphs on an Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald, Markus Wagner and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of IEEE VR 2004,
  Chicago, USA, March 27-31, 2004
  [abstract] [bib] [pdf] [ppt]
  
  
   
• Realtime Ray Tracing and its use for Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald, Timothy J. Purcell(#), Joerg Schmittler, Carsten Benthin and Philipp Slusallek
  ( Computer Graphics Group, Saarland University; '#'= Computer Graphics Group, Stanford University)
  Eurographics State of the Art Reports, 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides wald (ppt)] [slides purcell (ppt)] [OpenRT.divx] [purcell1.avi] [purcell2.avi] [purcell3.avi]

  

• Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (PVG), 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf] [divx movie]

  

• A Scalable Approach to Interactive Global Illumination
  Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
  Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), 2003, pages=621-630, (Proceedings of Eurographics)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [divx video]

  

• Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing on Commodity PC Clusters -- State of the Art and Practical Applications
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Andreas Dietrich and Philipp Slusallek
  Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2790, 2003, pages=499-508, (Proceedings of EuroPar 2003)
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides (ppt)]

  

• Streaming Video Textures for Mixed Reality Applications in Interactive Ray Tracing Environments
  Andreas Pomi, Gerd Marmitt, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
  Virtual Reality, Modelling and Visualization (VMV), 2003
  [bib entry]

  

• Interactive Global Illumination in Complex and Highly Occluded Environments
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2003
  [bib entry] [pdf] [slides (ppt)] [divx]

  

• The OpenRT Application Programming Interface
  - Towards A Common API for Interactive Ray Tracing -
  Andreas Dietrich, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the 2003 OpenSG Symposium,
  Darmstadt, Germany, April 1-2, 2003, pages 23-31,
  Published by the Eurographics Association
  [abstract] [bib] [pdf] [ppt]
   
• A Virtual Memory Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing Hardware
  Jörg Schmittler, Alexander Leidinger and Philipp Slusallek
  to appear in Computer and Graphics, No. 5 / 2003,
  Publisher: Elsevier Science
  preprint: [pdf], [abstract], [Web site for this paper]
   
• SaarCOR - A Hardware Architecture for Ray Tracing
  Jörg Schmittler, Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek
  in Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS Graphics Hardware 2002,
  Saarbrücken, Germany, September 1-2, 2002
  [bib], [pdf]
  
  
   
• Interactive Headlight Simulation - A Case Study of Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing
  Carsten Benthin, Tim Dahmen, Ingo Wald, and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (PGV), 2002
  [pdf] [bibtex] [Web site for this paper]

  

• Interactive Global Illumination
  Ingo Wald, Thomas Kollig (Universitaet Kaiserslautern), Carsten Benthin, Alexander Keller (Universitaet Kaiserslautern) and Philipp Slusallek
  Proceedings of the EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Rendering 2002
  [pdf] [bibtex] [Web site for this paper]
   
  
   
• OpenRT - A Scalable and Flexible Rendering Engine for Interactive 3D Graphics
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Philipp Slusallek
  Technical Report 2002-01, submitted for publication
  [pdf] [gzipped.ps] [bibtex] [Web site for this paper]
   
  
   
• State-of-the-Art in Interactive Ray-Tracing
  Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
  in State of the Art Reports, EUROGRAPHICS  2001, pp. 21-42,
  Manchster, United Kingdom, September 3-7, 2001
  [pdf]
   
• Interactive Distributed Ray-Tracing of Highly Complex Models
  Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, and Carsten Benthin
  in Rendering Techniques 2001 / Proceedings of the EUROGRAPHICS  Workshop on Rendering 2001,
  pp 274 -285, London, June 2001
  [pdf] [Web site for this paper]
   
  
   
• Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray-Tracing
  Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin, Markus Wagner, and Philipp Slusallek
  in Computer Graphics Forum / Proceedings of the EUROGRAPHICS 2001, pp 153-164, 20(3),
  Manchster, United Kingdom, September 3-7, 2001
  [bib] [ps.bz2] [pdf] [Gallery]

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