Real-time ray tracing – the holy grail of graphics, considered unattainable for decades – is now possible for video games. Thanks to advances in GPU hardware and integration in standards like DirectX, game developers will eagerly add ray tracing to take the next step in visual quality and ease of content creation. To help game … Continued
In this installment of Ray Tracing Gems, we take a look at the process of denoising and filtering scenes.
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Ray tracing will soon revolutionize the way video games look. Ray tracing simulates how rays of light hit and bounce off of objects, enabling developers to create stunning imagery that lives up to the word “photorealistic”. Ignacio Llamas and Edward Liu from NVIDIA’s real-time rendering software team will introduce you to real-time ray tracing in … Continued
At SIGGRAPH2019, NVIDIA Engineers helped the development community get up-to-speed on the newest graphics techniques during an advanced real-time ray tracing tutorial.
Editor’s note: What happens when a veteran graphics programmer with substantial experience in old-school ray tracing (in other words, offline rendering), gets hold of hardware capable of real-time ray tracing? I’m finally convinced. I joined NVIDIA around SIGGRAPH, just as the RTX hardware for ray tracing was announced. I saw the demos, heard the stats, but … Continued
At SIGGRAPH 2019, NVIDIA’s Josef Spjut discussed best practices for real-time ray tracing when the display target is 240 Hz refresh rate monitors.
Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the ability to write applications using ray tracing. But what if you’re curious about how ray tracing actually works? One way to learn is to code your own ray tracing … Continued
Optimize your use of NVIDIA RTX with these in-depth ray tracing tips.
This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far on using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games.
Using Numba and PyOptiX, NVIIDA enables you to configure ray tracing pipeline and write kernels in Python compatible with the OptiX pipeline.
Topics include real-time path tracing and denoising, dynamic diffuse global illumination, RTX-accelerated ray tracing with Optix, and Ray Tracing at 240Hz.
Morgan McGuire, a member of the NVIDIA research team, walks us through the history of shaders, rasterization, and finally, ray tracing.
In ray tracing, a single pipeline state object (PSO) can contain any number of shaders. This number can grow large, depending on scene content and ray types handled with the PSO; construction cost of the state object can significantly increase. The DXR API makes it possible to distribute part of the creation work to multiple … Continued
In this video, Nuno Subtil, Senior Devtech Engineer at NVIDIA, details the three most important things developers need to know about ray tracing in Vulkan. To learn more, you can attend his talk at GDC:Title: RAY TRACING IN VULKANLocation: Room 205, South HallDate: Wednesday, March 20Time: 10:30am – 11:15amPass Type: All Access, GDC Conference + … Continued
