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Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

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Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. They’re essential in ray tracing for simulating realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. With shaders, you can add creative expression and realism to the rendered image.

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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

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As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

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Top 5 Ray Tracing Sessions for Graphics Developers from GTC 21

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Engineers, product developers and designers around the world attended GTC to experience the latest NVIDIA solutions that are accelerating interactive rendering and simulation workflows in real time. On-Demand Sessions Ray Tracing in One Weekend Pete Shirley gets you started on the fundamentals of ray tracing.

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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today in Hardcover

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Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress and Amazon and as a hardcover on Apress and Amazon as well. For those who love books as a.

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Optimize Ray Tracing with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2021.5 Featuring Windows 11 Support

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Today, NVIDIA announced Nsight Graphics 2021.5, NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), Today, NVIDIA announced Nsight Graphics 2021.5, NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK. Key features: Full Windows 11 support for both API Capture and Tracing. Support for Linux NGX.

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Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8

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In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

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Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. By 2018, this level of performance was achievable in real-time, at 45 frames per second, enabling applications like video games to take a massive leap in graphical quality.