Raytracing

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

An interesting article on an alternative method to producing computer images:

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/0 ... .html#more

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Pretty good article explaining where we're going with this:

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=455

Though, when he says we need a machine capable of 1.5 billion rays and the best workstation we have now is 0.08 billion, you know not to hold your breath waiting for it to come tomorrow

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

An alternative to the raster-based displays of today, Intel has been investing heavily in it. In fact, you can download Quake 3 and 4 versions that are visually computed solely by your CPU without any quality loss. Everybody seems to love raytracing:

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/94/1

This article goes over the question of whether or not it's all that it's cracked up to be.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Rebuttal to the argument above:

http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5305#p5305

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

A quick update on raytracing:

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=5212

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Interview with David Kirk from Nvidia about the illusive raytrace, CUDA, and where he thinks Larrabee will fit in:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/0 ... nterview/1

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

ET:Quake Wars raytraced and on 64-bit Linux:

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content ... 5-113.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Raytracing games to come out:

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=582

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Raytracing video card:

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=694