Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: > Hello, > >> Interesting topic for graphics freaks :-) >> http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/real_time_raytracing_the_end_o.html >> > > Well, considering the fact that since about 2000, research in > real-time raytracing has been ongoing, but has relied on distributed > computing (sometimes 40 machines or more in parallel), combined to > the fact that we're seeing more and more cores in CPUs these days, > and finally that raytracing is easy and efficient to parallelize > (which as we know is not always the case for GPU-based rendering) > it's only logical that it's coming. > > The question is when will it start being useful for the general > population, as the mainstream use of GPUs is now. > > It's a very powerful and intuitive technique that I wish were more in > use today. Hopefully it will be in the not so distant future. > > J-S
http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/more_on_the_future_of_raytraci.php > David Kirk, Nvidia’s chief scientist was a panelist on a panel called > “When Will Ray-Tracing Replace Rasterization” at SIGGRAPH 02. There > he said, > > “I’ll be interested in discussing a bigger question, though: ‘When > will hardware graphics pipelines become sufficiently programmable to > efficiently implement ray tracing and other global illumination > techniques?’. I believe that the answer is now, and more so from now > on! As GPUs become increasingly programmable, the variety of > algorithms that can be mapped onto the computing substrate of a GPU > becomes ever broader. As part of this quest, I routinely ask artists > and programmers at movie and special effects studios what features > and flexibility they will need to do their rendering on GPUs, and > they say that they could never render on hardware! What do they use > now: crayons? Actually, they use hardware now, in the form of > programmable general-purpose CPUs. I believe that the future > convergence of realistic and real-time rendering lies in highly > programmable special-purpose GPUs.” - David Kirk, Nvidia. > > This was five years ago! hopefully people are going to implement it with ati and open source drivers. maybe they add their gpu as a coprozessor to gcc. would enable to compile a renderer with ati chip support. http://www.realityprime.com/articles/scenegraphs-past-present-and-future#tomorrow lets see what the future brings and where osg is heading. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
