Recent Publications

• Toward A Multicore Architecture for Real-time Ray-tracing
  Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Mary Vernon, and William R. Mark
  The 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, November 2008
  
  
• Using Annotated KD-Trees to Accelerate Shadow Ray Queries
  Peter Djeu and Stan Volchenok
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-08-36, August 30, 2008
  
  
• Corrections to the Surface Area Metric with Respect to Mail-Boxing
  Warren Hunt
  IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008
  
  
• Adaptive Acceleration Structures in Perspective Space
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008
  
  
• Ray-Specialized Acceleration Structures for Ray Tracing
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008
  
  
• Fast and Lazy Build of Acceleration Structures from Scene Hierarchies
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, and Donald S. Fussell
  IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, September 2007
  
  
• Dynamic Ray Scheduling to Improve Ray Coherence and Bandwidth Utilization
  Paul Arthur Navrátil, Donald S. Fussell, Calvin Lin, and William R. Mark
  IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, September 2007
  
  
• A Real-time Beam Tracer with Application to Exact Soft Shadows
  Ryan Overbeck, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and William R. Mark
  2007 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2007
  
  
• State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, William R. Mark, Johannes Gunther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G. Parker, and Peter Shirley
  Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Report
  
  
• Dynamic Ray Scheduling for Improved System Performance
  Paul Arthur Navrátil, Donald S. Fussell and Calvin Lin
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Scenes
  Technical Report TR-07-19, April 12, 2007
  (updated version available above)
  
  
• Razor: An Architecture for Dynamic Multiresolution Ray Tracing
  Peter Djeu, Warren Hunt, Rui Wang, Ikrima Elhassan, Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-07-52, January 24, 2007
  (conditionally accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics)
  
  
• An Analysis of Ray Tracing Bandwidth Consumption
  Paul Arthur Navrátil, William R. Mark
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-06-40, November 21, 2006
  
  
• Fast kd-tree Construction with an Adaptive Error-Bounded Heuristic
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, Gordon Stoll
  2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, September 2006
  
  
• Razor: An Architecture for Dynamic Multiresolution Ray Tracing
  Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark, Peter Djeu, Rui Wang, and Ikrima Elhassan,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-06-21, April 26, 2006
  
  
• Real-Time Rendering Systems in 2010
  William R. Mark and Donald Fussell
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-05-18, May 2, 2005
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer: Hardware Acceleration for Irregular Data Structures
  Gregory S. Johnson, Juhyun Lee, Christopher A. Burns and William R. Mark
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, October 2005
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer and its Application to Shadow Mapping
  Gregory S. Johnson, William R. Mark, and Christopher A. Burns
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
  Technical Report TR-04-09, April 15, 2004
  
  
• Universal Mechanisms for Data-Parallel Architectures
  Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, William R. Mark and Doug Burger
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2003)
  
  
• Cg: A System for Programming Graphics Hardware in a C-like Language
  William R. Mark, R. Steven Glanville, Kurt Akeley, Mark J. Kilgard
  SIGGRAPH 2003
  
  
• Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2002
  
  
• A Real-Time Procedural Shading System for Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Kekoa Proudfoot, William R. Mark, Svetoslav Tzvetkov and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2001
  
  
• Compiling to a VLIW Fragment Pipeline
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001
  
  
• The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001