Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced

An anonymous reader writes "At the Research@Intel Day 2008, Intel showed a ray-traced version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Compared to the original game, a water with reflections and refractions and a physically correct glass shader were added. Also, a camera portal with up to 200 recursions to itself has been demonstrated. To show off this ongoing research in the topic of real-time ray tracing, a four-socket system with quad cores has been used that allowed rendering the enhanced visual effects in 1280x720 at 14-29 fps. Just two years before, early versions of Quake 4: Ray Traced ran only at 256x256 with 17 fps. Even though Intel's upcoming Larrabee will be primarily a rasterizer, the capabilities for also doing ray tracing on it should deliver interesting opportunities."

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Re:Why do i feel that ...

[CastrTroy]

It's a bit like comparing veggie soy "meat" to the real thing It's something like it, but not really, just a "cheap trick".

I try not to think of veggie meat and tofu as a replacement for meat, but rather a whole different food that stands completely on it's own. It's quite different from meat, and not a replacement. But if you throw away the whole idea of a meat substitute away, it actually tastes pretty good. Not only that, it's a good source of protein, and extremely low fat compared to other sources of protein. Once you get over the fact that it's tofu, and obviously doesn't taste like meat, and isn't supposed to be meat, then you shouldn't have a problem eating it. If you don't like the taste/texture of tofu, you aren't preparing it right.