2025 paper, if someone can access the full article.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3904359_Ray_tracing_surfaces_of_revolution_An_old_problem_with_a_new_perspecti
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Ray tracing surfaces of revolution: An old problem with a new perspective
February 2001Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI

Abstract
We present a new subdivision scheme that is shown to improve the performance of
ray tracing surfaces of revolution over Kajiya's (1983) classical work. This is
based on a monotonic interval partitioning of a generatrix of a surface of
revolution. The algorithm has a search complexity upper bound of O(log(m n)) for
m monotonic intervals and n subdivisions for each interval and runs up to three
times faster on large scenes. This method also suggests a novel hybrid bounding
volume scheme that reduces this number of intersection tests between a ray and
the actual object surface

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