Euclideon software ray tracing technology
A small Australian company Euclideon made a loud statement that it has developed a new technology for rendering 3D graphics, which is supposedly "100,000 times better" now existing. They mean the number of polygons: their graphics engine (polygon converter) Unlimited Detail can render over 21 trillion voxels to 20 FPS using software ray tracing (ray tracing).
The demo video shows, among other things, an island of 1 km 2 consisting of 21,062,352,435,000 voxels. It is reported that the Euclideon polygon converter processes objects from 3DS Max, Maya and other 3D programs or imports “real” objects into a computer scene after 3D scanning.
The technology was developed using a grant of $ 2 million from the Australian government and can be used to generate computer graphics with ultra-high detail, that is, in scientific, medical and military systems, as well as in computer games.
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Euclideon, with its revolutionary technology, buzzed about in technological media back in 2010 . After that, representatives of the company refused to communicate with the press and did not publish a single press release. A year has passed, now they have brought the engine to mind and promise to release the SDK for game developers in a few months.
However, according to some experts, increasing the detail does not mean improving the real quality of the picture. The video shows that they break up voxel polygons and use software ray tracing. This method is well parallelized, but it is very demanding of resources in the case of adding new light sources and materials. Therefore, there are doubts that Euclideon will be able to carry out a revolution in the market of computer games.
In addition, other development teams are also working on the problem of raytracing. For example, here is a demonstration of the game using the Brigade tracing engine. True, it uses the resources of the CPU and GPU.
UPD. However, today John Carmack is moderately optimistic about the potential of using the Euclideon engine in games on “next-generation computer systems” in a few years. On current systems, he said, Euclideon is “no chance.”
The demo video shows, among other things, an island of 1 km 2 consisting of 21,062,352,435,000 voxels. It is reported that the Euclideon polygon converter processes objects from 3DS Max, Maya and other 3D programs or imports “real” objects into a computer scene after 3D scanning.
The technology was developed using a grant of $ 2 million from the Australian government and can be used to generate computer graphics with ultra-high detail, that is, in scientific, medical and military systems, as well as in computer games.
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Euclideon, with its revolutionary technology, buzzed about in technological media back in 2010 . After that, representatives of the company refused to communicate with the press and did not publish a single press release. A year has passed, now they have brought the engine to mind and promise to release the SDK for game developers in a few months.
However, according to some experts, increasing the detail does not mean improving the real quality of the picture. The video shows that they break up voxel polygons and use software ray tracing. This method is well parallelized, but it is very demanding of resources in the case of adding new light sources and materials. Therefore, there are doubts that Euclideon will be able to carry out a revolution in the market of computer games.
In addition, other development teams are also working on the problem of raytracing. For example, here is a demonstration of the game using the Brigade tracing engine. True, it uses the resources of the CPU and GPU.
UPD. However, today John Carmack is moderately optimistic about the potential of using the Euclideon engine in games on “next-generation computer systems” in a few years. On current systems, he said, Euclideon is “no chance.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/125482/
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