Geometrical optics, a branch of optics that eschews wave phenomena in favour of ray propagation, continues to underpin advances in lens design and optical engineering. Contemporary studies in this ...
A novel differentiable approach optimizes geometric waveguide coatings, achieving substantial gains in light efficiency and ...
Why it matters: As more high-end games require hardware-accelerated ray tracing, users continue disparaging the technology over its high computational cost and significant performance hit. One of ...
Here is ray tracing explained in simple terms, how ray tracing performance impacts FPS, and when ray tracing gaming visuals are truly worth the trade-off. Pixabay, Timrael Ray tracing has gone from a ...
Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...