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Top 5 Ray Tracing Sessions for Graphics Developers from GTC 21
Industry luminaries joined us to introduce the fundamentals of real-time ray tracing, and how current developers such as Autodesk, Dassault, Chaos and ESI have integrated ray traced technologies into their most popular apps.
Ray Tracing Validation for DirectX 12 and Vulkan
This post was updated on April 17, 2024. For developers working on ray tracing applications for both DirectX 12 and Vulkan, ray tracing validation is here to help you improve performance, find hard-to-debug issues, and root-cause crashes. Unlike existing debug solutions, ray tracing validation performs checks at the driver level, which enables it to identify … Continued
New NVIDIA OptiX Enhancements That Improve Your Ray Tracing Applications
OptiX 7.3 brings temporal denoising and improvements to OptiX Curves primitives and new features to the OptiX Demand Loading library.
Antarctic Observatory Data, Ray Tracing Advance Astrophysics Research
Scientists from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center are using ray tracing on NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate simulations of subatomic particles by hundreds of times.
Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene
Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. By 2018, this level of performance was achievable in real-time, at 45 frames per second, enabling applications like video games to take a massive leap in graphical quality. … Continued
Ray Tracing Magic From a One-Person Team
Abstraction, the winner of the DXR Spotlight Contest 2020, takes its audience on a tour of a world that tricks the eye and startles the senses. We sat down with the creator of Abstraction, Jonah Walters, to learn how he built it all by himself.
Free Ray Tracing Gems II Chapter Covers Ray Tracing in Remedy’s Control
This chapter, written by Juha Sjöholm, Paula Jukarainen, and Tatu Aalto, presents how all ray tracing based effects were implemented in Remedy Entertainment’s Control.
Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)
Optimize your use of NVIDIA RTX with these in-depth ray tracing tips.
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 6: The Rendering Equation
This post is about the sixth video in this series, the rendering equation. Arguably the most important equation in realistic computer graphics is The Rendering Equation. In this talk we show this equation and explain each term.
Unreal Engine 4.25 Released, Ray Tracing Features Now Ready for Production
All Unreal Engine developers can now produce sophisticated lighting simulations in their applications. With the release of update 4.25, the engine’s robust ray-tracing features have come out of beta, and are ready for production.
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing
In the second installment of our ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ video series, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines, editor of Ray Tracing Gems, explains the key differences between rasterization and ray tracing.
Learn More About Real-Time Ray Traced Caustics in Free Ray Tracing Gems II Chapter
We’ve been counting down to the release of Ray Tracing Gems II by providing early releases of select chapters once every week in July. This week’s chapter presents two real-time techniques for rendering caustics effects with ray tracing.
Learn More About Reservoir Sampling in Free Ray Tracing Gems II Chapter
As the August 4 release date for Ray Tracing Gems II nears, NVIDIA is offering another free chapter from the book to celebrate. This time, the topic is reservoir sampling, which is a family of algorithms that, given a stream of N elements, randomly select a K-element subset in a single pass. Usually, K is defined as a small constant, but N need not be known in advance.
Ray Tracing Updates Available through NVIDIA SDKs and the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine
Developers can access the latest versions of RTXGI, RTXDI, NRD, and OptiX through our SDKs and select technologies through the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine.