Path tracing is clearly something Rockstar could add to their games themselves. The Grand Theft Auto IV path tracing mod is now available to download for free. Modder xoxor4d first made this mod ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

What just happened? Modders have used Nvidia's RTX Remix toolset to apply bleeding-edge path-traced lighting to DirectX 7 and 8 games, mostly hailing from the early 2000s – but rarely anything as ...

At a time when the world offers “many counter-examples” of what a healthy marriage should look like, Pope Leo XIV has urged couples to look to Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse ...

A modder has made an even bigger improvement to Grand Theft Auto IV than Fusion Fix. xoxor4d created an Nvidia RTX Remix build for the game that runs on path traced graphics. This makes it the most ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In a video posted to the official PlayStation YouTube channel this morning, AMD and Sony detailed a few major advancements in AMD's GPU architecture developed under the two companies' Project Amethyst ...

AMD says it's about to adopt a "brand-new rendering approach" when it comes to ray tracing, and specifically path tracing, in the latest games, thanks to a new dedicated hardware block in its next-gen ...

TL;DR: The PS5 Pro is technically capable of path tracing, a rendering technique offering superior lighting realism compared to ray tracing, but its high GPU demands currently limit practical use on ...

It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...