Intel Corporation
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH QUALITY RAY-TRACED LEVEL OF DETAIL TRANSITIONS

Abstract:

Apparatus and method for more precise level-of-details transitions. For example one embodiment includes a graphics processor comprising: ray traversal hardware logic to traverse a ray through an acceleration structure to determine intersections between the ray and one or more object instances; and a level of detail selector to: set an instance comparison mask associated with an object instance to a first level of detail (LOD), the instance comparison mask comprising an N-bit value and one or more bits to indicate a type of comparison operation, compare a value from a ray mask with the N-bit value in accordance with the type of comparison operation to generate a comparison result, and determine whether to use the first LOD or a second LOD to render one or more pixels in accordance with the comparison result.