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2011
Springer

VoxelPipe: A Programmable Pipeline for 3D Voxelization

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VoxelPipe: A Programmable Pipeline for 3D Voxelization
We present a highly flexible and efficient software pipeline for programmable triangle voxelization. The pipeline, entirely written in CUDA, supports both fully conservative and thin voxelizations, multiple boolean, floating point, vector-typed render targets, user-defined vertex and fragment shaders, and a bucketing mode which can be used to generate 3D A-buffers containing the entire list of fragments belonging to each voxel. For maximum efficiency, voxelization is implemented as a sort-middle tile-based rasterizer, while the A-buffer mode, essentially performing 3D binning of triangles over uniform grids, uses a sort-last pipeline. Despite its major flexibility, the performance of our tile-based rasterizer is always competitive with and sometimes more than an order of magnitude superior to that of state-of-the-art binary voxelizers, whereas our bucketing system is up to 4 times faster than previous implementations. In both cases the results have been achieved through the use ...
Jacopo Pantaleoni
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Type Journal
Year 2011
Where EGH
Authors Jacopo Pantaleoni
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