With morning and nighttime routines alone, people spend plenty of time looking in the mirror, but did you know the history of this everyday item dates to 4000 B.C.? According to Brown University’s ...

Radar and LiDAR are two key technologies for sensing the surrounding environment, widely used in industries such as automotive, robotics, security, and environmental monitoring. The fundamental ...

Before diving into ray tracing ("RT" for short), let's first take a look at how illumination works in the real world. From the micro-perspective, the surface of an object illuminated by a ray of light ...

The future is very shiny. What was once considered impossible is now reality, thanks to Nvidia's RTX series. But now a company has found a way to make realtime raytracing possible on other, mainstream ...

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