Abstract
WebGL is an immediate mode 3D rendering API designed for the Web. Ray tracing is a method that can generate photo-realistic image. For the past decades, ray tracing on the Internet browsers is an impossible task. WebGL’s appearance gives this impossible task coming true. In this paper, we introduced a WebGL-based ray tracing for small dynamic scenes (about 3 K triangles) in real time.
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Chea, S.A., Liu, F. (2013). Real-Time Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes Based on WebGL. In: Zhong, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 218. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4847-0_21
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