Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-84).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, August 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 19, 2009). "School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-117).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Tampere, 1985. / Includes 4 papers published by the author in various journals. Includes bibliographical references (4 p. near end of text).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2001. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 122 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2000. / Major Professor: David C. Yu. Includes bibliographical references.

Debra A. Stabile, Alexander H. Levis, Susan A. Hall. / Bibliography: p. 44. / "January 1982" / "AFOSR-80-0229" "ONR-N00014-77-C-0532"

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Master of Science

This thesis presents Ray Collection BVH, an improvement over a current day Ray Tracing acceleration structure to both build and perform the steps necessary to efficiently render dynamic scenes. Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) is a commonly used acceleration structure, which aides in rendering complex scenes in 3D space using Ray Tracing by breaking the scene of triangles into a simple hierarchical structure. The algorithm this thesis explores was developed in an attempt at accelerating the process of both constructing this structure, and also using it to render these complex scenes more efficiently. The idea of using "ray collection" as a data structure was accidentally stumbled upon by the author in testing a theory he had for a class project. The overall scheme of the algorithm essentially collects a set of localized rays together and intersects them with subsequent levels of the BVH at each build step. In addition, only part of the acceleration structure is built on a per-Ray need basis. During this partial build, the Rays responsible for creating the scene are partially processed, also saving time on the overall procedure. Ray tracing is a widely used technique for simple rendering from realistic images to making movies. Particularly, in the movie industry, the level of realism brought in to the animated movies through ray tracing is incredible. So any improvement brought to these algorithms to improve the speed of rendering would be considered useful and iii welcome. This thesis makes contributions towards improving the overall speed of scene rendering, and hence may be considered as an important and useful contribution