FeaturesWhite Paper: Raster vs. Rays

The shiny, new hatchback you nudge in a street race dents slightly on the driver’s side door. Although you’re playing a PC game, created with beaucoup equations, the bend looks almost real. The 3D renderer sculpts all those numbers into images, with help from the video API (application program interface). However, several completely different rendering techniques can be the source of those images. Currently, the hardware and software industries are debating how to best utilize two graphics-rendering techniques: ray tracing and rasterization.

Ray Tracing Teaser

Hit the jump to see how 3D game rendering is changing with hardware advancements. 

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FeaturesWhite Paper: The Evolution of Viruses

These technological beasties can take on lives of their own—much like their biological namesakes

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FeaturesWhite Paper: PC Recycling

It's finally time to put that old rig down, but what happens to your PC in the afterlife?

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FROM THE ARCHIVEWhite Paper: Touch-Screen Technology

Touch-screen technology - How new displays put the world at your fingertips.

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FROM THE ARCHIVEWhite Paper: Power Line Networking

Once dismissed as hokum, this LAN technology is finally coming into its own.

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FeaturesWhite Paper: Power Supplies

There’s a lot going on inside a power supply—and no, the magic gnomes that turn your lights on when you hit that switch on the wall aren’t powering your rig as well.

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