Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

Ray tracing is a lighting technique that brings an extra level of realism to games. It emulates the way light reflects and refracts in the real world, providing a more believable environment than what ...

Abstract: Traditional upsampling methods apply spatial-invariant filtering across the entire image for efficiency, but often produce unsatisfactory artifacts around the edges. We propose a novel image ...

Adobe has been the industry standard for digital media drawing and editing software for decades. Photoshop and Illustrator are the primary applications taught in most graphic design schools, and they ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

Inkscape provides several tools and various shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, transparency effects (alpha), transformations, gradients, patterns and groups. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons ...

In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

Real-time ray tracing in games has been making waves since Nvidia launched its RTX 20 series cards back in 2018. What was little more than a gimmick, initially, gradually evolved into a feature that ...

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 ...

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