Abstract
As previously explained in Sect. 10.1.4, various approaches have been developed to speed up ray-tracing. These may be classified into two categories:
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Methods for speeding up the intersection process itself
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Methods for reducing the number of ray-object intersection calculations
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Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (1987). Optimization techniques for ray-tracing. In: Image Synthesis. Computer Science Workbench. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68060-4_11
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