Real-time ray tracing arrived on consumer GPUs as an optional add-on that you could switch on if your graphics card had the ...

Since it was invented decades ago, ray tracing has been the holy grail for rendering computer graphics realistically. By tracing individual light rays as they bounce off multiple surfaces, it can ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar -- and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

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If you want to know how ray tracing works, it's all in the name: the renderer simulates ("traces") the bouncing of light "rays" to determine how the scene should be lit and colored. This is great, but ...

Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is getting a huge boost. The new DLSS 3.5 update adds a feature called Ray Reconstruction to the suite, and it promises to make ray tracing more realistic ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

One thing currently a bit lacking on Linux is the performance of ray tracing with the open source Mesa RADV driver, but a big ...