Interactive BIM Rendering with Server-Side Ray Tracing

The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of a server and client architecture. The server performs the computationally intensive ray tracing calculations and generates pre-rendered images, while the client receives and displays these images with minimal local processing. This mediator approach allows high-quality lighting effects to be achieved without requiring complex computational resources at the client (personal computer) level.

The system performs ray tracing calculations in advance on the server before the user actually views the visualization. The server pre-processes the BIM data, calculates all lighting effects, and generates the rendered images ahead of time. When the user accesses the visualization on their personal computer, the heavy computational work has already been completed, making the local system requirements much lower.

The server performs all computationally intensive rendering calculations in advance, generating pre-rendered images at high quality before they are needed for display. This preliminary processing allows the client system to simply display pre-computed frames without requiring high continuous computational power, thereby reducing energy consumption while maintaining high frame rate delivery.

Instead of performing continuous real-time ray tracing at the client, the system creates copies of pre-rendered images from the server and transmits them to the client for display. The client receives multiple copies of rendered frames and displays them sequentially to achieve high frame rates without requiring high local computational energy.