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Nvidia’s custom GPU for the Nintendo Switch 2 will offer dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores to enable ray-tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).
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Making a physical doughnut is easy enough, given a good dough recipe and a nice hot deep fat fryer. But have you ever considered making a one in physical electronic …read more Continue reading It’s a Doughnut, In Hardware
Back on the theme of learning to program by taking on a meaningful project — we have another raytracing demo — this time using Rust on the Raspberry Pi. [Unfastener] …read more Continue reading The Juggler: In Rust
[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of …read more Continue reading A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC
We’re huge fans of taking retro games and adding new graphics features to them, so you had to know that when [Sultim Tsyrendashiev] released his ray-traced Doom engine, we would …read more Continue reading Ray-Traced Doom Really Shines!
It isn’t news that [s0lly] likes to do ray tracing using Microsoft Excel. However, he recently updated his set up to use functions in a C XLL — a DLL, …read more Continue reading Excel Ray Tracing with Help from C
[SSZCZEP] had a tough time understanding ray tracing to create 3d-like objects on a 2d map. So once he figured it out, he wrote a tutorial he hopes will be …read more Continue reading Ray Casting 101 Makes Things Simple
A trick famously used by Nintendo to keep its slowly aging SNES console fresh against newer competition was to produce new games with extra support chips in the cartridge to push out hitherto-unthinkable performance. Chips such as the famous SuperFX gave us 3D polygonal graphics, but it would have been …read more
3D graphics were once the domain of university research groups and large, specialized computing systems. Eventually, they were tamed and became mainstream. Your phone, tablet, and home computer are all perfectly capable of generating moving 3D graphics. Incidentally, so is Microsoft Excel.
This is the work of of [s0lly], who …read more
Minecraft’s upcoming support for ray tracing will introduce a new look for Minecraft, adding realistic lighting, volumetric water, vibrant colors, and emissive textures
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