Visualization of Nil, Sol, and SL2 Geometries (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

In this work, we propose a novel ray tracing model for immersive visualization of Riemannian manifolds. To do this we introduce Riemannian ray tracing, a generalization of the classic Computer Graphics concept. Specifically, our model is capable of interactive real-time VR visualizations of Nil, Sol, and SL2, Thurston's most nontrivial geometries. These experiences have the potential to allow insights with impact in physics/cosmology research, education, special effects, and games, among other aspects. The Riemannian ray tracing is implemented using the ray-tracing capabilities of the NVidia RTX platform. We discuss the general algorithm in CPU and show how to map the computations to the RTX pipeline.

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