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?]
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?]