fidelity, ray tracing-based rendering techniques, such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are...

Look up ray tracing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ray tracing is a method for calculating the path of waves or particles through a system. The method...

In physics, ray tracing is a method for calculating the path of waves or particles through a system with regions of varying propagation velocity, absorption...

Ray-tracing hardware is special-purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations. The problem of rendering 3D graphics can...

gaming. Nvidia RTX features hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications (like CGI...

participating media to generate realistic (physically plausible) images. This ray tracing technique uses the Monte Carlo method to accurately model global illumination...

rays directly into the ray tracing pipeline. Imagination Technologies taped out test silicon containing the complete PowerVR 6XT GR6500 ray tracing GPU...

Sphere tracing, the function estimates a distance to step next. Ray marching is also used in physics simulations as an alternative to ray tracing where...

reflections.) A type of ray tracing called path tracing is currently the most common technique for photorealistic rendering. Path tracing is also popular for...

Distributed ray tracing, also called distribution ray tracing and stochastic ray tracing, is a refinement of ray tracing that allows for the rendering...

techniques of ray tracing. This allows even very complex optical systems to be analyzed mathematically or simulated by computer. Ray tracing uses approximate...

of geometric objects efficiently, such as in collision detection and ray tracing. Although wrapping objects in bounding volumes and performing collision...

via Metal. NVIDIA and AMD called "ray tracing shaders" as "ray tracing cores". Unlike unified shader, one ray tracing shader can contains multiple ALUs...

Ray tracing is a technique that can generate near photo-realistic computer images. A wide range of free software and commercial software is available...

constructive solid geometry is particularly simple when ray tracing. Ray tracers intersect a ray with both primitives that are being operated on, apply...

tracing and beam tracing are a derivative of the ray tracing algorithm that replaces rays, which have no thickness, with thick rays. In ray tracing,...

("Tensor cores") and dedicated ray tracing processors ("RT cores"). Turing leverages DXR, OptiX, and Vulkan for access to ray tracing. In February 2019, Nvidia...

The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, most commonly acronymed as POV-Ray, is a cross-platform ray-tracing program that generates images from a text-based...

and electromagnetism simulations. Beam tracing is a derivative of the ray tracing algorithm that replaces rays, which have no thickness, with beams. Beams...

cards, the first in the industry to implement hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing in a consumer product. In a departure from Nvidia's usual strategy, the...

model was released on November 7, 2024, featuring a faster GPU, improved ray tracing, and introducing an AI-driven upscaling technology. The PlayStation 5's...

RTX's fourth-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fifth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores. The GPUs are...

second generation ray-tracing accelerators. Each Compute Unit contains one ray tracing accelerator. The overall number of ray tracing accelerators is increased...

Volume ray casting, sometimes called volumetric ray casting, volumetric ray tracing, or volume ray marching, is an image-based volume rendering technique...

Universe. Control was among the first games released to utilize real-time ray tracing built into the hardware of newer video cards. Upon release, Control received...

Ray casting is the methodological basis for 3D CAD/CAM solid modeling and image rendering. It is essentially the same as ray tracing for computer graphics...

reflections system that leverages software as well as hardware accelerated ray tracing. Unreal Engine 5 was revealed on May 13, 2020, supporting all existing...

hardware accelerated ray tracing is a new feature for RDNA 2 which is handled by a dedicated ray accelerator inside each CU. Ray tracing on RDNA 2 relies...

render output units : tensor cores (or FP16 cores in GeForce 16 series) : ray-tracing cores (streaming multiprocessors) (graphics processing clusters) Base...

need to use a separate compute API in conjunction with a graphics API. Ray tracing is provided in a set of cross-vendor extensions, which together are analogous...