Ray Tracing Archives - ACM SIGGRAPH Blog

2 Jan 2020

Ray Tracing Will be Everywhere in 2020

by Jon Peddie | posted in: Augmented Reality, Gaming, Graphics, Hardware, Production, Real-Time | 2

Jon Peddie shares how PCs, consoles, and mobile devices will all employ ray tracing in the near future, and which top companies are leading the charge.

19 Sep 2019

Seeing the Unseeable — Imaging a Black Hole with Katie Bouman

by SIGGRAPH Conferences | posted in: Conferences, Industry Leaders, Research | 0

A recap of Caltech’s Katie Bouman’s presentation “Imaging a Black Hole With the Event Horizon Telescope” at SIGGRAPH 2019.

8 Jan 2019

Benchmarking Ray Tracing

by Jon Peddie | posted in: Business, Graphics, Hardware, Production, Software | 1

Real-time ray-tracing promises to bring new levels of realism to in-game graphics. Image source: Underwriter Labs. Ray tracing, as experts know, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is … Continued

28 Aug 2018

25 SIGGRAPH 2018 Stories You May Have Missed

by SIGGRAPH Conferences | posted in: Animation, Art, Business, Conferences, Emerging Technologies, Graphics, Hardware, Industry Leaders, Interactive Techniques, Production, Virtual Reality | 0

photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Our recent trip to Vancouver yielded a wealth of new ideas, new experiences, and new innovations. …And plenty of writers were there to capture it! We hope you enjoy this roundup of … Continued

10 Aug 2018

Epic Games and ILMxLAB on ‘Reflections’

by SIGGRAPH Conferences | posted in: ACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Conferences, Film, Graphics, Industry Leaders, Interactive Techniques, Production, Real-Time, Visual Effects | 2

“Reflections” © 2018 Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Real-Time Live! is the highly anticipated showcase of real-time graphics — live and on stage at SIGGRAPH 2018! One of the projects that will be presented and deconstructed by its creators in … Continued