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I wonder what technology applications like Xara3D use to be able to perform real-time ray tracing.

How is such good quality rendering done in real-time?

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This question isn't suited for Game Development Stackexchange, since we didn't write Xara 3D, we can't know how they did it. You should try and write your own ray tracing algorithm, locate bottlenecks and then come back with a question on how you could optimize the function. – William 'MindWorX' Mariager Aug 22 '12 at 6:45
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@William'MindWorX'Mariager I think he only used Xara 3D as an example. I think there might be people here that can give some information about real-time raytracing. – bummzack Aug 22 '12 at 7:28
William'MindWorX'Mariager this is what i meant , this is only example – user3689 Aug 22 '12 at 7:35
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@bummzack, The question still seems to broad to me. There are a ton of ways to do ray-tracing and even more ways to do "good quality rendering" in real-time. – William 'MindWorX' Mariager Aug 22 '12 at 7:46
you know to many , i know none , i can read about it , but i didnt found any implemention that works smoth in real time like xara 3d – user3689 Aug 22 '12 at 8:04

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Here's another option - NVidia provide a free GPU accelerated raytracing engine, but it only works on their GPUs.

http://developer.nvidia.com/optix

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You can find the tutorial Jacco Bikker made here: http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Raytracing_Topics_Techniques-Part_1_Introduction.shtml

It's kinda advanced since it goes through almost all important topics about Ray-Tracing, including Reflections, Refractions, Soft Shadows etc.

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This might interest you: http://made.nhtv.nl/~bikker/

This is Jacco Bikker's website, he's currently building a leading realtime raytracing and pathtracing engine called Brigade 2 ( 1 was non GPU, 2 is now utilizing the GPU ). You can find a lot of material on his website regarding realtime raytracing.

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The link appears to only provide demos for real-time ray tracing, not samples as to how it's done. The link provided by Thomas Versteeg seems to provide more of what was asked for. That aside, thanks for the link to the cool demos! – leetNightshade Aug 23 '12 at 15:46

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