Why Larrabee Stumbled
Categories: GPU Tags: cpu, larrabee, many cores, multi core
the only Larrabee GPUs that you might ever see...
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[HowTo] Perspective Projection Matrix in OpenGL
Categories: Game Development, HowTo, OpenGL, Programming Tags: camera, direct3d, game development, larrabee, matrix, opengl, opengl 3.1, perspective, Programming, projection
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Geeks3D Higgledy-Piggledy News (2009.04.11)
Categories: Industry News Tags: AMD Fusion Media Explorer, doom, glview, larrabee, Michael Abrash, opengl, panda3d, physx, SLI-Multi-OS, Sparse Voxel, virtualization
Do you remember? The first Doom and a visit to id software, 1993…
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Larrabee Wafer Shooted
Categories: Graphics Cards Tags: die, graphics card, intel, larrabee, wafer
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Graphics Rendering Pipelines
Categories: 3D Engines, Game Development, Programming Tags: 3d engine, 3d graphics programming, game development, graphics rendering pipeline, larrabee
With the upcoming Intel’s Larrabee, we are heading to a fully programmable rendering pipeline. The following image shows the graphics pipeline evolution:
It seems the old days of graphics programming gurus (where you have to code everything like the polyfiller) are back…
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Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?
Categories: Game Development Tags: 3d graphics programming, api, daniel pohl, directx, game development, gamedev, larrabee, opengl, rasterizering processor, ray tracing
TG Daily has interviewed Daniel Pohl, an engineer who is making some impressive progress in ray-tracing research, about Intel’s ray-tracing efforts.
Q: What is Larrabee from your perspective. What is the underlying architecture and the programming model?
A: Larrabee was primarily built as a rasterizering processor. Therefore you have support for DirectX and OpenGL. But it will also be a freely programmable x86-architecture. That means you could, for example, write your own rasterizer with your own API, a ray tracer, a voxel renderer or combinations of those. You could also use it for non-graphical applications that benefit from parallelization.Q: What API is Intel using to showcase ray tracing demos?
A: We wrote our own API. The shading system uses a HLSL-like syntax that allows you also to shoot new rays within a shader. Using that API the programmer has no need to manually multi-thread the rendering and does not need to optimize the shading with SSE as this is done by the shading compiler automatically.
Read the complete interview here: Intel graphics update: Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?
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