Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

Ray tracing is a lighting technique that brings an extra level of realism to games. It emulates the way light reflects and refracts in the real world, providing a more believable environment than what ...

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Even paper flowers have a hint of romance to them that real flowers carry. They’re not simply imitations of life, a symbol of fake love; rather, they’re the kind of flowers you breathe life into. In ...

Aside from cheesecake, I believe flowers may actually be my one true love. These handmade paper flowers, well, they are stunning and so easy to make! Easy enough most kids could do them, and pretty ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two of the most exciting and demanding dynamic lighting techniques available to gamers and game developers in 2024. They both represent a massive leap in realism over ...

This part of the tutorial focuses on tracing etcd, kube-api-server and kubelet requests. It is assumed that the tracing backend from the previous sections has been successfully installed. If you do ...

In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

Real-time ray tracing in games has been making waves since Nvidia launched its RTX 20 series cards back in 2018. What was little more than a gimmick, initially, gradually evolved into a feature that ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...