Method and apparatus using primitive bounding volumes to improve the accuracy of BSP-trees

摘要

A method, system, and program product for creating a child node of a binary space partitioning (BSP) tree node that better approximates the size of an object to be rendered is provided. In one embodiment, a a binary space partitioning tree is created. A rendering process then determines whether either a top node or a child node in a first level of child nodes is a good approximation of the object to be rendered. If not, then the rendering process modifies the binary space partitioning tree to include a new child node having boundaries that are closer to the maximum coordinates of primitives defining the object than are the boundaries of the top node or of the child nodes in the first level of child nodes. This new child node may have a bounding volume that overlaps the bounding volumes of other child nodes in the BSP tree.