Carsten Benthin
benthin@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de
Research Topics and Interests:
- Computer Graphics
- (Interactive) Ray Tracing
- Distributed and Parallel Rendering
- Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures
- Applied Mathematics
- Assembly Programming
Old Projects:
- RTRT (Real
Time Ray Tracing)
- OpenRT
- Ray Tracing on the IBM Cell Processor
Publications:
Packet-based Ray Tracing of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces
Carsten Benthin,
Solomon Boulos,
J Dylan Lacewell,
and
Ingo Wald
SCI Institute, University of Utah, Technical Report #UUSCI-2007-011, 2007
[bib entry]
[pdf]
Ray Tracing on the CELL processor
Carsten Benthin,
Ingo Wald,
Michael Scherbaum, and
Heiko Friedrich
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2006
[bib]
[pdf]
PhD Thesis: Realtime Ray Tracing on Current CPU Architectures
Carsten Benthin,
[pdf]
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, January 2006
A Ray Tracing based Virtual Reality Framework for Industrial Design
Andreas Dietrich,
Ingo Wald,
Carsten Benthin,
Alexander Efremov,
Tim Dahmen,
Johannes Günther,
Vlastimil Havran,
Philipp Slusallek,
and
Hans-Peter Seidel
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, 2005, (accepted for publication, minor revision pending)
[bib entry]
[pdf]
Techniques for Interactive Ray Tracing of Bézier Surfaces
Carsten Benthin,
Ingo Wald, and
Philipp Slusallek
To appear at journal of graphics tools,
Interactive Ray Tracing of Free-Form Surfaces
Carsten Benthin,
Ingo Wald, and
Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of Afrigraph 2004,
Stellenbosch (Cape Town), South Africa, November 3-5, 2004
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[pdf]
[ppt]
Realtime Ray Tracing and its use for Interactive Global Illumination
Ingo Wald,
Timothy J. Purcell(#),
Joerg Schmittler,
Carsten Benthin
and
Philipp Slusallek
(
Computer Graphics Group, Saarland University; '#'=
Computer Graphics Group, Stanford University)
Eurographics State of the Art Reports, 2003
[bib entry]
[pdf]
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[slides purcell (ppt)]
[OpenRT.divx]
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Distributed Interactive Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes
Ingo Wald,
Carsten Benthin
and
Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (PVG), 2003
[bib entry]
[pdf]
[divx movie]
A Scalable Approach to Interactive Global Illumination
Carsten Benthin,
Ingo Wald
and
Philipp Slusallek
Computer Graphics Forum 22(3), 2003, pages=621-630, (Proceedings of Eurographics)
[bib entry]
[pdf]
[divx video]
Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing on Commodity PC Clusters -- State of the Art and Practical Applications
Ingo Wald,
Carsten Benthin,
Andreas Dietrich
and
Philipp Slusallek
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2790, 2003, pages=499-508, (Proceedings of EuroPar 2003)
[bib entry]
[pdf]
[slides (ppt)]
Interactive Global Illumination in Complex and Highly Occluded Environments
Ingo Wald,
Carsten Benthin
and
Philipp Slusallek
Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2003
[bib entry]
[pdf]
[slides (ppt)]
[divx]
Carsten Benthin, Tim Dahmen, Ingo Wald and Philipp Slusallek
Interactive Headlight Simulation
- A Case Study for Interactive Distributed Ray Tracing -
Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Parllel Graphics and Visualization, Blaubeuren, Germany, September 2002
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[Web site for this paper]
Ingo Wald, Thomas Kollig, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Keller, and Philipp Slusallek
Interactive Global Illumination using Fast Ray Tracing
Proceedings of the 13th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Rendering, Pisa, Italy, 2002
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Ingo Wald, Philipp
Slusallek, and Carsten Benthin
Interactive Distributed Ray-Tracing of Highly Complex Models
in Rendering Techniques 2001 / Proceedings of the EUROGRAPHICS
Workshop on Rendering 2001, pp 274 -285, London, June 2001
[pdf] [Web site for this paper]
Ingo Wald, Carsten Benthin,
Markus Wagner, and Philipp
Slusallek
Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray-Tracing
in Computer Graphics Forum / Proceedings of the EUROGRAPHICS 2001,
pp 153-164, 20(3), Manchster, United Kingdom, September 3-7, 2001
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Position:
Diploma Thesis:
- Carsten Benthin: Interactive Visualization of Highly Complex
Models , Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität des
Saarlandes, November, 2001
Current Address:
Carsten Benthin
Universität des Saarlandes
Lehrstuhl f. Computergraphik
FR 6.2 - Informatik
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany
Gebäude 36.1, Raum E14
Telefon: +49 681-302-3835
FAX: +49 681-302-3843
Email: benthin@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de
last revision: benthin 07.2005
