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RT Gems book part II

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-4427-2

has the official variant with final layout and a complete book download, too.

UPDATE: The latest and greatest version will always be hosted at http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/ which already is at version 1.5 now, including the final layout, too

UPDATE2: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Eric_Haines_Ray_Tracing_Gems?id=MNqRDwAAQBAJ

Ray Tracing Gems book

https://developer.nvidia.com/books/raytracing/raytracing_gems_preview

features an “Open Access” variant of the soon-to-be-released hardcover version.

And it features a handful of gems by iray coders, too, revealing some of the “tricks” and algorithms we do in iray in more detail than the already existing iray paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01263

Happy Birthday iray!

Exactly 10 years ago, the iray prototype project was started mostly from scratch with the (at the time) unique goal of getting maximum performance out of all CUDA based GPUs, while at the same time providing maximum rendering quality at high simulation precision, with as few knob- and parameter-tweaking as possible. That’s what I would thus consider the “birth” of the iray as we know it today.

Now, several million installations later (iray was and/or is still used in all major 3D applications, accompanied by dozens of specialized tools and visualization packages), we finally reached the 2-digit age!  :)

So greets to all the retired, new and veteran iray devs and supporters that were part of that development cycle and now go grab yourself some virtual cake and enjoy this trip-to-the-past-video from roughly 9 years ago (thanks to the unknown youtube user who archived this back then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXBx8l0iso

GTC 2018 iray leaders session

Missed the release of these videos, so a bit late, but still impressive stuff:

Showreel: https://vimeo.com/262368494

Short Talk Recordings:

51VR: https://vimeo.com/266121061 (iray Unreal Engine Plugin, also for baking)

FirstInvision: https://vimeo.com/266706549

Cadalog: https://vimeo.com/266838142

Daz3D: https://vimeo.com/267394438

Lockheed Martin: https://vimeo.com/267569088

Solidworks: https://vimeo.com/267753363

Lumiscaphe: https://vimeo.com/268009937

Gulfstream: https://vimeo.com/268806438

Synchro: https://vimeo.com/269650378