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Ray Tracey
Personal blog · raytracey.blogspot.comprogramminghardware
Ray Tracey's personal blog at raytracey.blogspot.com covers programming and hardware. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its coverage of path tracing and real-time ray tracing, GPU rendering, and id Software and John Carmack news. One commenter calls it worth a visit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Quasi-random, more or less unbiased blog about real-time photorealistic GPU rendering
What Hacker News says?
> John's work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete. So he's leaving just before starting to work on the voxel/polygon id Tech 6 hybrid gaming engine. Darn it! http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2008/08/carmack-id-tech-6-hybr... Hopefully id Software will continue that without him, but I doubt it.
Comment linking /2008/08/carmack-id-tech-6-hybrid-rendering.html
on “Id Software founder John Carmack resigns”Huh, I wonder if applying that denoising filter to the OpenGL compute version https://raytracey.blogspot.com/2016/06/real-time-path-traced... is going to be as good
Comment linking /2016/06/real-time-path-traced-quake-2.html
on “Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2”> Why doesn't GPU hardware do native path tracing now? The PowerVR guys are working on it now that they bought https://www.caustic.com/ http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/powervr_openrl_raytracing_tech... > Whoever made this brigade 3 thing, I wish nvidia or ATI would hire him Otoy hired him instead http://render.otoy.com/ http://raytracey.blogspot.com/
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on “WebGL raytraced eye”A path-traced game: http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2011/09/720p-video-of-unbiased... The blog is pretty sweet too.
Comment linking /2011/09/720p-video-of-unbiased-stunt-racer-hd.html
on “Raytracing Myths”otoy was more open earlier; they've since locked it down a bit, but with some googling you can dig it out (eg: http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2008/08/otoy-transformers-and-... , links-> http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=882 ). In earlier interviews Urbach spoke about a very fast gpu-assisted transform from polygon meshes -> voxels for use in their raytracer (and some hybrid meshes); the use of such a thing fo…
Comment linking /2008/08/otoy-transformers-and-ray-tracing.html
on “OTOY to render the games on cloud.”