Kip, Version 1.0

Software · Wed Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20180904.2· OSTI ID:1468526 · Code ID:17244

Staley, Martin ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This high-performance ray tracing library provides very fast rendering, compact code, type flexibility via C++ 'generic programming' techniques, and ease of use through an application programming interface (API) that functions independently of any GUI, on-screen display, or other enclosing application. Kip supports constructive solid geometry models based on any of several built-in shapes and operators and allows for new, user-defined shapes and operators. Additional features include basic texturing, input/output of models using a simple human-readable file format with full error checking and detailed diagnostics, and support for shared data parallelism. Kip is written in pure, ANSI Standard C++, is entirely platform independent, and is very easy to use, as it requires no build system, configuration or installation scripts, wizards, special preprocessing, makefiles, or external libraries.

• Site Accession Number: C10112
• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC52-06NA25396
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• Code ID: 17244
• OSTI ID: 1468526
• Country of Origin: United States