https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Future-Improvements/m-p/768676#M6 I am wondering if future versions will incorporate the mesh compression techniques described in yur paper "Memory Efficient Ray Tracing with Hierarchical Mesh Quantization." Also, I have compared Embree to the Intel IPP Ray Tracing KD-Tree, both implemented in my ray tracer. For primary rays (roughly 1-million rays) versus an aircraft model with 100,000 triangles the two approaches gave very similar performance times (roughly 0.1 seconds). Hardly a comprehensive comparison, but interesting.<BR /> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:06:28 GMT Patrick_Buckley 2011-08-18T22:06:28Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Future-Improvements/m-p/768676#M6 I am wondering if future versions will incorporate the mesh compression techniques described in yur paper "Memory Efficient Ray Tracing with Hierarchical Mesh Quantization." Also, I have compared Embree to the Intel IPP Ray Tracing KD-Tree, both implemented in my ray tracer. For primary rays (roughly 1-million rays) versus an aircraft model with 100,000 triangles the two approaches gave very similar performance times (roughly 0.1 seconds). Hardly a comprehensive comparison, but interesting.<BR /> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:06:28 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Future-Improvements/m-p/768676#M6 Patrick_Buckley 2011-08-18T22:06:28Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Future-Improvements/m-p/768677#M7 Embree's strength lies in tracing incoherent rays. A more complex workload (e.g. path tracing) will probably give you a very different result. It would be interesting to see such a comparison.<BR /> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:39:38 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Future-Improvements/m-p/768677#M7 Manfred_Ernst__Intel 2011-11-22T17:39:38Z