Realtime Raytracing

[Zacchia]

Watch this:
http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?i=R1EwNmtDcWuRpa3FEb0U&realtime-ray-tracing-for-google-sketchup=
With what kind of application is this made?

[thomthom]

Related Videos refer to Hypershot .. so ... best guess?

[Chris Fullmer]

That is hypershot by bunkspeed (i'm pretty sure):

http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/

Chris

[Zacchia]

Thanks guys. Seams to be a good application to render scenes real fast!

[ScottPara]

Might want to read this if you are thinking about Hypershot.

What's going on with HyperShot?

Here’s an intriguing situation developing in the rendering and visualisation world. Bunkspeed broke into the rendering world in a storm, providing an easy to use tool that provided instant feedback on your work and enabled the create of stunning imagery in seconds. I’m a fan and you’re probably a fan too. What most people probably

DEVELOP3D (develop3d.com)

Autodesks Showcase is far better in so many respects

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=6848305&siteID=123112

Unless you have the computing power you will never see "real-time". We run Opticore and showcase on a 192 core SGI icebox cluster and there is still a slight delay when rotating geometry...but we are rotating 1.5-2gb files with 75 million polys too.

Scott

[tomot]

@unknownuser said:

Unless you have the computing power you will never see "real-time". We run Opticore and showcase on a 192 core SGI icebox cluster and there is still a slight delay when rotating geometry...but we are rotating 1.5-2gb files with 75 million polys too.

I might be just around the corner .....maybe in a year or 2
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/intel-48-core-processor/