Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage

According to Microsoft's own benchmarks, GDeflate is still the way to go for developers wanting to let the GPU handle asset loading, but Zstd is better for CPU-intensive projects. Zstd does also offer ...
IEEE

Ray-Tracing and Physical Optics Modeling of Leaky Wave Antennas Combined With Lenses

Abstract: We present an efficient and accurate modeling of arbitrary-shaped locally modulated leaky wave antennas (LWAs) combined with dielectric lenses by means of a combined ray-tracing (RT) and ...
Digital Trends

Crimson Desert delivers native 4K ray tracing without upscaling

Crimson Desert has been one of the most visually ambitious open-world games on the horizon, and now we have a much clearer idea of how it performs. In a new technical deep dive, Digital Foundry tested ...
IEEE

ACSim: A Novel Acoustic Camera Simulator With Recursive Ray Tracing, Artifact Modeling, and Ground Truthing

Abstract: We present a novel acoustic camera simulator that generates realistic sonar images by incorporating recursive ray tracing and sonar artifact modeling and provides various ground truth labels ...