Streaming physics collision detection in multithreaded rendering software pipeline

A circuit arrangement, program product and method stream level of detail components between hardware threads in a multithreaded circuit arrangement to perform physics collision detection. Typically, a master hardware thread, e.g., a component loader hardware thread, is used to retrieve level of deta...

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Hauptverfasser: SHEARER ROBERT ALLEN, MEJDRICH ERIC OLIVER, SCHARDT PAUL EMERY
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A circuit arrangement, program product and method stream level of detail components between hardware threads in a multithreaded circuit arrangement to perform physics collision detection. Typically, a master hardware thread, e.g., a component loader hardware thread, is used to retrieve level of detail data for an object from a memory and stream the data to one or more slave hardware threads, e.g., collision detection hardware threads, to perform the actual collision detection. Because the slave hardware threads receive the level of detail data from the master thread, typically the slave hardware threads are not required to load the data from the memory, thereby reducing memory bandwidth requirements and accelerating performance.