As noted on SlashDot
Saarland University is showing a prototype of a 3D Raytracing Card at CeBIT2005. The FPGA is clocked at 90 MHz and is 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU with 30 times more MHz
Also see SaarCOR – A Hardware Architecture for Real Time Ray Tracing at
http://www.saarcor.de/
Instant Scene Modeler (iSM) uses a pair of cameras to observe a scene. Each camera is looking at the scene from a slightly different angle and iSM can measure distances to thousands of points in each scene. When the cameras move. iSM will match new images, compute the camera motion and generate a model from the calculated 3D Data.
More details at
http://sm.mdacorporation.com/what_we_do/ism.html
Also noted an interesting article in Desktop Engineering discussing Virtual Prototyping. Read it at
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaaapn.htm
It’s not for photorealistic but interesting nonetheless.
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