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

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
storing, in a memory, beam data associated with a beam projected into a graphics scene; and
processing, by a circuitry, 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.