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RAY OF LIGHT

OPM: What is ray tracing and how will it change how we experience games?

Ray tracing is a technique for achieving photorealistic graphical effects (and other effects, such as realistic audio) which require information gathered from a scene’s geometry. It works based on the ability to determine the intersect point of a ray cast in any given direction from any given point in a 3D scene represented in a search-optimised form. This technique can be

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