Will UsherExcited to share some excellent recent work with Landon Dyken and Sidharth Kumar: https://www.willusher.io/publications/prog-iso-ml-tvcg24/, we extend our progressive raycasting pipeline with an ML image completion step to stop raycasting early and complete the image with ML! It can still even run in your browser by deploying the model on ONNX's #WebGPU backend!
Ending traversal early and filling in the image improves overall rendering perf by removing long tail rays, further reduces the amount of data to be processed, and still provides a good image.
Try the demo: https://ldyken53.github.io/TVCG-progiso/#dataset=magnetic and grab the code: https://github.com/ldyken53/TVCG-progiso !