Real-Time Rendering » NVIRT http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques Sun, 12 May 2013 00:21:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 NVIRT Slides http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/nvirt-slide/ http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/nvirt-slide/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:08:30 +0000 Eric http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/?p=79 Austin Robison kindly shared with some of us his NVIRT talk slides (see my previous blog post). It sounds like these would take a few weeks to show up on the NVIDIA website somewhere. So, until then, I’ve put them up for viewing on our website. No favoritism; it’s just interesting information.

I liked his dichotomy for rasterization vs. ray tracing: rasterization is fast, but needs cleverness to support complex visual effects; ray tracing robustly supports complex visuals but needs cleverness to be fast. Sure, there are any number of counter-arguments to this split, but it has a nugget of truth at its core.

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