Warp wrote:

> Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
>> I've just read a paper which states that real-time ray-tracing might
>> become doable
> 
>   "Real-time raytracing" is not an unambiguous term.
>   There have been real-time raytracers in the mid-90's for the first
>   Pentium,
> so in that sense that's old news. It doesn't *become* doable because it
> has been doable for over 5 years.

I know that it has been made on CPUs already.. but, if you had properly
quoted my statement it would say:

"I've just read a paper which states that real-time ray-tracing might become
doable on the next generation GPUs using their fragment shaders:"

so the new thing is that it's getting possible on the standard GPUs.

- Micha


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