Carmack Speaks On Ray Tracing, Future id Engines

Vigile writes "As a matter of principle, when legendary game programmer John Carmack speaks, the entire industry listens. In a recent interview he comments on a multitude of topics starting with information about Intel, their ray tracing research and upcoming Larrabee GPU. Carmack seems to think that Intel's direction using traditional ray tracing methods is not going to work and instead theorizes that using ray casting to traverse a new data structure he is developing is the best course of action. The 'sparse voxel octree' that Carmack discusses would allow for 'unique geometry down to the equivalent of the texel across everything.' He goes on to discuss other topics like the hardware necessary to efficiently process his new data structure, translation to consoles, multi-GPU PC gaming and even the world of hardware physics."

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Re:Carmack endorsed the Intel 740 graphics chip

[edxwelch]

Interestingly he also says the xbox is better than PS3... wonder if he accepts "gifts" for endorsing these products

Re:Right...

[a whoabot]

Is "n3tcat" the handle for somebody with thirty years experience in first-person shooter engines or something? I have actually worked on First Person "Shooters" since 1965 AD and I assure you that traditional Ray-Tracing is still the future of the field no matter what this Jon Carnak says.