The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

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 ...

Ray tracing is no longer the be-all-end-all for graphics. There’s a new buzzword in town, one that evokes even better visual fidelity. It’s path tracing and it was revealed by The Witcher and ...

'The object is visible' in the real world means that 'the light emitted from the light source and reflected by the object is captured by the naked eye or the sensor of the camera'. ' Path tracing ' is ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...