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From: markv@uoregon.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanted: Clever Intersection Tests (and bibliography)
Message-ID: <281@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 17:18:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: uoregon.281
Posted: Fri Jul 17 17:18:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 18:55:09 EDT
References: <1222@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: markv@drizzle.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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Keywords: ray tracing

In article <1222@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP> rice@swatsun (Dan Rice) writes:
>
>	I'm in the midst of writing a ray-tracer, and I would be very interested
>in any clever and unusual intersection tests that people have come across.  For

	I too am interested in computational methods for determining
	ray-object intersections.  Please post 'em if you have got 'em,
	or at least mail 'em to me too.

>I'm curious
>to see if there are similar examples of clever intersection tests beating brute-
>force tests.  I'd appreciate examples or source, or pointers to literature about
>geometric intersection tests.
	
	As am I.  I have read a number of Kajiya's papers, and am amazed
	at how clever things one can be about managing these
	intersection calculations.

	I have constructed a small bibliography of references in refer
	format which I would be willing to post if people are
	interested.  It has a couple of dozen references, having to do
	with ray tracing and clever approaches to realistic images,
	mostly gleaned from recent Siggraph proceedings.  I would
	appreciate exchanging bibliographies with anyone else.


>-- 
>- Dan Rice, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081
>...!sun!liberty!swatsun!rice
> ...!seismo!bpa!swatsun!rice

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