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Imagination Technologies fires photon ray

Image courtesy Movieclips.com   Imagination Technologies has introduced its latest ray tracing IP, the IMG CXT for its flagship B-series GPU IP. The announcement marks the debut of Imagination’s PowerVR Photon ray tracing architecture.  Photon, says Imagination, is the industry’s most advanced ray tracing architecture, bringing desktop-quality visuals to mobile and embedded applications. The biggest news is that it has already ...

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Image courtesy Movieclips.com   Imagination Technologies has introduced its latest ray tracing IP, the IMG CXT for its flagship B-series GPU IP. The announcement marks the debut of Imagination’s PowerVR Photon ray tracing architecture.  Photon, says Imagination, is the industry’s most advanced ray tracing architecture, bringing desktop-quality visuals to mobile and embedded applications. The biggest news is that it has already been licensed for multiple markets. The six levels of ray tracing acceleration (RTLS) 0. Legacy Solutions  1. Software on Traditional GPIs  2. Ray/Box and Ray/ Triangle Testers  3. Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) Processing in Hardware  4. BVH Processing with Coherency
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