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

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

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

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.

Rebuttal to the argument above:

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

A quick update on raytracing:

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

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

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

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

Raytracing games to come out:

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

Raytracing video card:

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