The team behind “Mortal Kombat 11” discusses how they developed the high fidelity cached simulations and other groundbreaking gaming elements.
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Top 10 SIGGRAPH Stories of 2019
2 January 2020 • by ACM SIGGRAPHACM SIGGRAPH, Conferences
Our editors reflect on a banner year of stories with a roundup of 2019’s “most read” news from the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog.
Ray Tracing Will be Everywhere in 2020
8 October 2019 • by Jon PeddieAugmented Reality, Gaming, Graphics, Hardware, Production, Real-Time
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.
Seeing the Unseeable — Imaging a Black Hole with Katie Bouman
19 September 2019 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Industry Leaders, Research
A recap of Caltech’s Katie Bouman’s presentation “Imaging a Black Hole With the Event Horizon Telescope” at SIGGRAPH 2019.
Benchmarking Ray Tracing
8 January 2019 • by Jon PeddieBusiness, Graphics, Hardware, Production, Software
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 an unanswerable...
25 SIGGRAPH 2018 Stories You May Have Missed
28 August 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Art, Business, Conferences, Emerging Technologies, Graphics, Hardware, Industry Leaders, Interactive Techniques, Production, Virtual Reality
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 some of the biggest stories out of SIGGRAPH...
Epic Games and ILMxLAB on ‘Reflections’
10 August 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Conferences, Film, Graphics, Industry Leaders, Interactive Techniques, Production, Real-Time, Visual Effects
"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 Vancouver is...