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by andrewcooke 5948 days ago
was coming here to say the same thing.

incidentally, nvidia is starting to get into raytracing - http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3721&p=6

[edit: although the comment says the video says that it's not... watching the video now. hmmm. looks like they're exploiting fractals in some way? they seem to have some scale-free way of encoding the data that they use to generate the image?]