Ray tracing is used extensively when developing computer graphics imagery for films and TV shows, but that's because studios can harness the power of an entire server farm (or cloud computing) to get ...

Just as Cecil B DeMille revolutionised cinema lighting with theatrical staging, there is a revolution afoot in computer-generated graphics. Kristof Beets, of Imagination Technologies, explains what ...

When graphics processing unit (GPU) maker NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported second-quarter 2018 results, concerns about slowing growth stole the headlines once again. This time, the slowdown was caused ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shimmering reflections on water. Light glinting off objects as they move. Shadows of different depth cast by ...

Ray tracing has always been the "holy grail" of computer graphics, says Jason Ronald, head of program management for the gaming console Xbox. The technique simulates a three-dimensional image by ...

Here’s a leap in mobile computing graphics from the UK’s Imagination Technologies. Ray-tracing – a technology for rendering graphics that gives highly realistic natural lighting effects in video games ...

Nvidia has confirmed that it will release a driver update in April that will enable support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR) in Pascal and Turing GTX graphics cards. Since the launch of Nvidia’s ...

Nvidia has made good on last month’s promise to enable ray tracing support on non-RTX graphics cards by releasing a driver update enabling DirectX Raytracing (DXR) for selected GTX GPUs. Nvidia took ...

If you have one powerful computer, you can play Minecraft RTX beta, bringing ray-tracing to the already gorgeous block world of Minecraft. Ray-tracing is a form of rendering which drastically improves ...