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A comment on John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing.

Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by jamieb on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:11AM (#5107853)
Here's a commercial, realtime raytracing tool. Runs happily on a dual-core macbook pro. No custom card needed. Yes, it runs better on a $20,000 64-thread Tigerton, but it will run usably on a laptop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUiLBmioRI4

Carmack is right about games (surprise!). I can't imagine "Imagination Technologies" is pushing the Caustic R2500 at games.

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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by samwillis on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:06AM (#5108917)
We use KeyShot at work and its an amazing package, its the industry standard now for rendering product design CAD. The demo video showing the Caustic card running is about equivalent to KeyShot running on a $3000 PC. They have a way to go until they convince me that they have anything better than what KeyShot is capable of.
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