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Tracing a ray through uniformly subdividedn-dimensional space

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Finding the cells intersected by a ray in a uniformly subdivided space is a technique used in accelerated ray tracing and also other computer graphics applications. A related problem is that of finding the sequence of grid points in a 3D voxel space, which best approximates a given line. This paper examines earch of these problems, introduces a unifying approach and provides a generalisation of previous algorithms.

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  1. Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Mel Slater

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Written while on sabbatical leave from Department of Computer Science, QMW University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

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Slater, M. Tracing a ray through uniformly subdividedn-dimensional space. The Visual Computer 9, 39–46 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01901027

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