Real-time Ray Tracing
29.01.07 15:33
Real-time ray tracing is a new, high-performance hardware and software architecture that is displacing conventional visualization techniques used in industrial development. The interactive graphic technology allows 3D objects to be displayed, moved and modified. Even light properties like shadows, refractions and reflections can be realistically simulated. To display original CAD models such as an entire Boeing 777, data from as many as 350 million polygons must be processed interactively. This equates to more than 30 gigabytes of data or 40 CD-ROMs. Real-time ray tracing can be employed in automobile manufacturing, aircraft construction and other industrial applications for the early detection and resolution of design problems.
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