Temporal data structures in a ray tracing architecture

A method comprising:

• executing, by at least one of a plurality of cores within a processor, graphics commands and render images based on a plurality of rays traversed through a bounding volume hierarchy that comprises a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes constructed based on a plurality of input primitives, each node including multi-dimensional spatial components and at least one node also including temporal components;
• and
• accelerating, by at least one of the plurality of cores within the processor, ray tracing operations, accelerating the ray tracing operations comprising:
• performing an interpolation based on detected movement of an input primitive of the plurality of input primitives within the multi-dimensional spatial components and temporal components of the at least one node, and
• traversing a ray of the plurality of rays through the bounding volume hierarchy and determining an intersection between the ray and the input primitive based on the interpolation and a timestamp associated with the ray.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having program code stored thereon which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the operations of:

• executing, by at least one of a plurality of cores within a processor, graphics commands and render images based on a plurality of rays traversed through a bounding volume hierarchy that comprises a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes constructed based on a plurality of input primitives, each node including multi-dimensional spatial components and at least one node also including temporal components;
• and
• accelerating, by at least one of the plurality of cores within the processor, ray tracing operations, accelerating the ray tracing operations comprising:
• performing an interpolation based on detected movement of an input primitive of the plurality of input primitives within the multi-dimensional spatial components and temporal components of the at least one node, and
• traversing a ray of the plurality of rays through the bounding volume hierarchy and determining an intersection between the ray and the input primitive based on the interpolation and a timestamp associated with the ray.