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Imagination Technologies beats the ray-tracing drum

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GfxS staff

This year there is new software to go with the dedicated ray-tracing hardware. Last year around this time, Imagination Technologies ...

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Speed increases ripple through Enlighten dot-update

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Randall Newton

Tweaks throughout the production process make this real-time global illumination engine run faster. A dot-update to global real-time illumination engine ...

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AMD introduces new ray tracing technology

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Jon Peddie

With 47 ray tracing products on the market, where will it fit in? By Jon Peddie Ray tracing (RT) is ...

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KeyShot 5 adds direct NURBS rendering, cloud-based sharing, fade animation

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Randall Newton

This update of the popular rendering engine for CAD users also tweaked the interface for ease of use and increased ...

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One-click virtual photos inside SketchUp

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Randall Newton

High-end vendor Imagination Technologies takes a low-end consumer approach. Only $19.95 for a camera inside the model. A new app ...

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Using rendering technology to revolutionize yacht design

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Randall Newton

Architect Greg Lynn is pioneering a new language of form, taking advantage of real-time ray tracing hardware and software from ...

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Baked in silicon ray tracing on view at Siggraph

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GfxS staff

Caustic by Imagination was showing off its new accelerator board. But Nvidia’s latest high-end GPU might be as fast. Direct-to-final-render ...

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Rhino plug-in gives access to Caustic Visualizer ray tracing

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Randall Newton

The free tool adds a fully ray traced viewport to Rhino; adding Caustic’s board to the mix supercharges the rendering. ...

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Autodesk buys PI-VR for real-time visualization technology

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Randall Newton

Computational horsepower now allows high-end product development to work real-time with fully visualized models. Autodesk will target automotive first.  Autodesk ...

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Caustic introduces ray-tracing accelerator boards

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Jon Peddie

Imagination Technologies acquired Caustic in 2010 for its graphics prowess. These two new add-in boards address a small but fanatic ...