Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. Also, the results of such a model can be ...

3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that utilize a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing ...

Computer graphics research has always pushed the boundaries of software and hardware, forcing us to ask the question: “If the technology were fast enough, what else could be done?” Thankfully, as ...

Differentiable rendering has emerged as a pivotal suite of techniques bridging computer graphics with optimised, gradient‐based methodologies. By computing derivatives of rendering outputs with ...

Caustic Graphics Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.) is a startup company that claims to have made a breakthrough in the hardware acceleration of ray-traced graphics. Caustic claims a 20 times speedup for ...

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new GPU architecture, designed for the $250 billiion visual effects industry, to power rich, cinematic-quality interactive experiences. The Turing GPU is the first ever GPU ...

At the Neural Information Processing Conference in Montreal, Canada, Nvidia researchers demonstrated that they could use the power of artificial intelligence to render synthetic, yet realistic, scenes ...

New software techniques make lighting in computer-generated images look more realistic for use in video games, extended reality, and scientific visualization tools. Researchers at Dartmouth, in ...