Lecture 13: Global Illumination & Path Tracing (10)
rishiarjun
The use of ray tracing in movie graphic design is probably the most exciting application of it. The Nvidia RTX platform has a very cool product that uses tensor cores for AI acceleration, reducing the number of rays needed. This accelerates the BVH traversal part, which is the most computationally expensive part of ray tracing calculations.
orenazad
On this note, while ray tracing tech has been getting faster especially for real-time applications, there has also been a lot of improvement made in cutting the amount of work needed to be done, not just making that work faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2B9BZiZjQ
This video shows NVIDIA's AI denoising for path tracing and its honestly mind boggling. The difference between how much time it takes to get a specific level of discernible quality is astounding and they even talk specifically about ray traced shadows!
The use of ray tracing in movie graphic design is probably the most exciting application of it. The Nvidia RTX platform has a very cool product that uses tensor cores for AI acceleration, reducing the number of rays needed. This accelerates the BVH traversal part, which is the most computationally expensive part of ray tracing calculations.
On this note, while ray tracing tech has been getting faster especially for real-time applications, there has also been a lot of improvement made in cutting the amount of work needed to be done, not just making that work faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2B9BZiZjQ This video shows NVIDIA's AI denoising for path tracing and its honestly mind boggling. The difference between how much time it takes to get a specific level of discernible quality is astounding and they even talk specifically about ray traced shadows!