ray-tracing

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And then there were 21—free ray tracing programs

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Jon Peddie

Introducing the Nebula Render In the process of preparing our 2019 Ray tracing and Rendering report, we have searched for ...

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Benchmarking ray tracing

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Jon Peddie

Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given ...

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The tale of Turing

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Alex Herrera

A big-picture look at how Nvidia got to Turing, and how the new architecture signals an inflection point in GPU ...

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Chaos Group demos Project Lavina; realtime ray tracing

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Kathleen Maher

Chaos Group presents photorealistic computer graphics rendering at up to 90 frames per second on Nvidia Turing-based Quadro RTX GPUs. ...

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Siemens acquires longtime visualization partner Lightwork Design

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Kathleen Maher

Siemens has announced the acquisition of Lightwork Design of Sheffield, England. Lightwork began life as an OEM provider of rendering ...

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Nvidia claims realtime ray tracing now possible

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Jon Peddie

Using AI techniques, and powerful processor At GDC, Nvidia and Microsoft made a joint announcement about the possibility of doing ...

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Redway3D unveils REDsdk 4.3 visualization toolkit

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Randall Newton

The update sports new ray-tracing solutions, post-processing effects, as well as cloud-and-sky rendering. REDsdk is a C++ graphics visualization toolkit ...

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Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support

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Randall Newton

Luxion still betting on CPU processing power in a field becoming dominated by GPU rendering. The most recent revision of ...

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Disney Animation’s Matterhorn advances particle graphics

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Amina Saeed

Initially creating snow for Frozen, it now works with mud, foam, sand and more. By Amina Saeed Disney graphics scientists ...

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AMD gives advanced rendering software to developers

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Jon Peddie

Radeon ProRender released to open source. Several CAD and DCC plug-ins are already available.   By Jon Peddie At Siggraph, ...