The Shaper Trace tool is so simple but also incredibly helpful that I have to scratch my head and question if it’s too good to be true. The idea is simple: Trace turns sketches into vector files in ...

Ray tracing is much more than just a marketing term in 2025. Most games released these days have RT features in them; ...

Back in 2018, I remember sitting on my couch watching the RTX 20-series announcement on my then-decently powerful gaming laptop. Jen-Hsun took to the stage in a biker jacket, jokingly announced the ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar -- and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...

Most PC gamers know that ray tracing is a very performance-intensive feature, and depending on the improvement to visual quality, it may or may not be worth using. In an extensive Hardware Unboxed ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Demystifying ray tracing for the next generation. Ray tracing is an ...

GIMP is a free open-source graphic software that is good for photo editing, photo manipulation, tracing, and much more. Learning how to trace images and objects in GIMP is a way to get your hand-drawn ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Simply put, path tracing is a more advanced form of ray tracing which relies upon simulating the ...