Ray Tracing

[abercrab]

Interesting article on Ray Tracing and a little on the current Rasterization method, neither of which I've ever heard of before and even after skimming the article couldn't really explain, but the Ray Tracing may be the future for FPS games. The second link was in the article and actually shows the affects of Ray Tracing on QW.

www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ray-tracing-rasterization,2351.html

software.intel.com/en-us/articles/quake-wars-gets-ray-traced/

[belfu]

Cheers Abe, interesting articles indeed. I'll have to see if I can somehow incorporate this in my own work

[strontiumdog]

The reflections in ETQW from the second link look awesome, obviously games will be heading in this direction in the future
Thanks Abe ;D

[belfu]

Well I wouldn't count on this being the future Sure you can do neat things, but the improvement in image quality is neglible at best, and the performance penalty is MASSIVE.
Also the research in the area seems quite subdued. Two German universities and Intel. And the German guys work for Intel nowadays so it's only Intel...
Even if their coming Larrabee GPU kicks ass in ray tracing it will take time and effort to make the game coders to see the err of their ways (if it's possible).

[abercrab]

Jul 23, 2009 6:25:58 GMT belfu said:

Cheers Abe, interesting articles indeed. I'll have to see if I can somehow incorporate this in my own work

So I can't help but be curious what your work is then?

[belfu]

I'm doing research on multicore computation platforms.