Patent ID: 11880928
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising:
memory to store beam data associated with a beam projected into a graphics scene; and
circuitry to process the beam data associated with the beam projected into the graphics scene, processing the beam data associated with the beam projected into the graphics scene is to perform:
determining whether the beam intersects with a node of multiple nodes arranged hierarchically in a hierarchical tree structure, the multiple nodes containing primitives of the graphics scene, and
when the beam intersects with the node of the multiple nodes,
iteratively performing at least one of:
subdividing successive intersecting child beam into a plurality of child beams until a beam leaf that cannot be further subdivided, and
continuing to traverse down nodes arranged hierarchically in the hierarchical tree structure until a leaf node is reached,

testing intersection of one or more individual rays within the beam leaf and primitives within the leaf node.