Screenshot from our Lightsky ray tracer
We are playing around with our CUDA ray tracing software. The design philosophy is to create a real-time ray tracing experience that allows the user to play with the visual parameters and get an instant feedback. This is not something revolutionary but ray tracing is such a flexible rendering technique, so the basic software can be used in a lot areas. In this demo the user can change and update the material properties at runtime.
We finally found a decent model 🙂 .
Refraction and diffuse materials, rendering time 45 sec.
But we still like some good old programmers art. The above image is a rendering that uses ambient occlusion together with classic ray tracing.
No ray tracing post without Sponza!
tkerwin
Jun 18, 2009
Very nice. What rendering speed are you seeing with these kinds of scenes?