Software Rasterization of 2 Billion Points in Real Time

Abstract

We propose a software rasterization pipeline for point clouds that is capable of brute-force rendering up to two billion points in real time (60fps). Improvements over the state of the art are achieved by batching points in a way that a number of batchlevel optimizations can be computed before rasterizing the points within the same rendering pass.

These optimizations include frustum culling, LOD rendering, and choosing the appropriate coordinate precision for a given batch of points directly within a compute workgroup.

这些优化包括视锥体剔除、细节层次渲染，以及直接在一个计算工作组内为给定的一批点选择合适的坐标精度

Adaptive coordinate precision, in conjunction with visibility buffers, reduces the number of loaded bytes for the majority of points down to 4, thus making our approach several times faster than the bandwidth-limited state of the art.

Furthermore, support for LOD rendering makes our software-rasterization approach suitable for rendering arbitrarily large point clouds, and to meet the increased performance demands of virtual reality rendering.

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