Bill Mark - Publications

Recent work - Conditionally accepted and/or not yet published

• Razor: An Architecture for Dynamic Multiresolution Ray Tracing
  Peter Djeu, Warren Hunt, Rui Wang, Ikrima Elhassan, Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark
  Conditionally accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics
  Draft version as of January 24, 2007
  
  
• Real-Time Rendering Systems in 2010
  William R. Mark and Donald Fussell,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-05-18, May 2, 2005.
  

Recent invited publication

• Future Graphics Architectures
  William R. Mark
  ACM Queue, March/April 2008.
  

Refereed publications

• A Multi-core Architecture for Real-time Ray-tracing
  Venkatraman Govindaraju, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Mary Vernon, Peter Djeu, William R. Mark
  41st Annual IEEE/ACM Intl. Symp. on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2008), Nov. 2008.
  (accepted; final camera-ready revisions in progress)
  
  
• Ray-specialized acceleration structures for Ray Tracing
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  2008 IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.
  
  
• Adaptive acceleration structures in perspective space
  Warren Hunt and William R. Mark
  2008 IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.
  
  
• Fast and Lazy Build of Acceleration Structures from Scene Hierarchies
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, and Donald S. Fussell
  2007 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept 2007.
  
  
• Dynamic Ray Scheduling to Improve Ray Coherence and Bandwidth Utilization
  Paul Arthurl Navratil, Donald S. Fussell, Calvin Lin, and William R. Mark
  2007 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept 2007.
  
  
• A Real-time Beam Tracer with Application to Exact Soft Shadows
  Ryan Overbeck, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and William R. Mark
  2007 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2007.
  
  
• State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes
  Ingo Wald, William R. Mark, Johannes Gunther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G. Parker, and Peter Shirley
  Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Report, Sept. 2007
  (Note: This article is a review article; a preliminary extended abstract was peer-reviewed but the full paper was not).
  
  
• Fast kd-tree Construction with an Adaptive Error-Bounded Heuristic
  Warren Hunt, William R. Mark, Gordon Stoll
  2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Sept. 2006.
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer: Hardware Acceleration for Irregular Data Structures
  Gregory S. Johnson, Juhyun Lee, Christopher A. Burns and William R. Mark
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, October 2005.
  
  
• Universal Mechanisms for Data-Parallel Architectures
  Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, William R. Mark and Doug Burger
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2003).
  
  
• Cg: A System for Programming Graphics Hardware in a C-like Language
  William R. Mark, R. Steven Glanville, Kurt Akeley, Mark J. Kilgard
  SIGGRAPH 2003
  
  
• Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2002
  
  
• A Real-Time Procedural Shading System for Programmable Graphics Hardware
  Kekoa Proudfoot, William R. Mark, Svetoslav Tzvetkov and Pat Hanrahan
  SIGGRAPH 2001
  
  
• Compiling to a VLIW Fragment Pipeline
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001
  
  
• The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering
  William R. Mark and Kekoa Proudfoot
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001
  
  
• Post-Rendering 3D Warping
  William R. Mark, Leonard McMillan, and Gary Bishop,
  Proceedings of 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
  
  
• Memory Access Patterns of Occlusion-Compatible 3D Image Warping
  William R. Mark and Gary Bishop,
  SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 1997.
  
  
• Adding Force Feedback to Graphics Systems: Issues and Solutions,
  William R. Mark, Scott C. Randolph, Mark Finch, James M. Van Verth, and Russell M. Taylor II,
  SIGGRAPH 1996.
  

Book Chapter

• Real-Time Programmable Shading,
  William R. Mark,
  in Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, David S. Ebert et al., 3rd edition,
  Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003.

Technical Reports

• Razor: An architecture for dynamic multiresolution ray tracing
  Gordon Stoll, William R. Mark, Peter Djeu, Rui Wang, and Ikrima Elhassan,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-06-21, April 26, 2006.
  
  
• Real-Time Rendering Systems in 2010
  William R. Mark and Donald Fussell,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-05-18, May 2, 2005.
  
  
• The Irregular Z-Buffer and its Application to Shadow Mapping
  Gregory S. Johnson, William R. Mark, and Christopher A. Burns,
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
  Technical Report TR-04-09, April 15, 2004.
  
  
• Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping: Visibility, Reconstruction, and Performance for Depth-Image Warping
  William R. Mark,
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 1999.
  (UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR99-022)
  
  
• Multiple Image Warping for Remote Display of Rendered Images
  Thomas C. Hudson, William R. Mark,
  UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR99-024
  
  
• Efficient Reconstruction Techniques for Post-Rendering 3D Image Warping,
  William R. Mark and Gary Bishop,
  UNC Computer Science Technical Report TR98-011, University of North Carolina, March 21, 1998.
  
  
• UNC-CH Force Feedback Library, Revision C,
  William R. Mark, Scott C. Randolph, Mark Finch, and James M. Van Verth,
  UNC-CH Computer Science Technical Report TR96-012, January 30, 1996.