<div dir="ltr">This method requires ray bundling, which as I understand it we don't support with Cycles.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Marco G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco.gzt@gmail.com" target="_blank">marco.gzt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Cycles devs,<div>I stumbled upon this recent paper and thought this might be interesting for Cycles.</div><div><br></div><div>"...this introduces refined algorithms for BVH4 traversal of coherent and incoherent rays, named CLPT and ORST respectively [...] The results show that CLPT <b>can outperform Embree up to 4x for primary ray traversal</b>! For incoherent rays ORST can achieve up to 60% higher traversal speed compared to the previously fastest method DRST, which <b>makes ORST about twice as fast as Embree for secondary rays.</b>"</div><div><br></div><div>Link to the blog post and paper: <a href="http://rapt.technology/posts/fast-ray-tracing-kernels/" target="_blank">http://rapt.technology/posts/fast-ray-tracing-kernels/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>MG</div></div>
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