New year in New 'Threads'

I bit the bullet reciently and upgraded my 4 year old single core PC to a snazzy new Intel Q6600 Quad core machine. The price was pretty good, for around $500 I walked out with the processor, Motherboard, and 2gb of ram. What spurred this, was mainly the interest and research I've been doing lately in the real time ray tracing realm.

And let's get one thing straight with that. About a year ago, when I told people that software graphics would be the future, I had my fair share of arguments and skeptics. A year later, a software project is already putting out an open source real time ray tracer, which doesn't do any black magic. Really, it does what you'd expect it to, Use multi core, and SIMD. WOW. Amazing! Nothing fancy with RT hardware, or any cutting edge BVH.. just using what is available to us.

Plus, these other people agree with me. So, it's safe to say I'm not that crazy.
Arauna real time ray tracer
Intel Blogs
Beyond 3D response


Crazy Eh? Crazy like a goddamn Velociraptor!

~Main