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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today in Hardcover

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Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. For those who love books as a.

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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today as Free Digital Download

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Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games.

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

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Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. What is the difference between path tracing and ray tracing?

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Low GPU Usage [Fixed]

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Notably, the stunning cinematic visuals on this title need modern, capable hardware. Why is The LOTR: Gollum not using my graphics card that much? Driver problem: Outdated or faulty driver may prevent your graphics card from performing well, which can be another reason behind this problem. Click on the Graphics.

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Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8

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In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. This release adds support for Shader Execution Reordering (SER).

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

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Today NVIDIA is releasing Streamline, an open-source cross-IHV framework that aims to simplify integration of multiple super-resolution technologies and other graphics effects in games and applications. Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing.

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NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

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Today, NVIDIA is releasing a SIGGRAPH 2021 technical paper, “ Real-time Neural Radiance Caching for Path Tracing ” that introduces another leap forward in real-time global illumination: Neural Radiance Caching. Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static.