OK, everything happened today, so I am believing the concept of time is no longer meaningful.

First, NVIDIA announced its consumer versions of their RTX ray tracing GPUs, which should come as a shock to no one after last week’s Ray Tracing Monday at SIGGRAPH. My favorite “show off the ray tracing” demo was for Battlefield V.

Then, this:

https://twitter.com/Peter_shirley/status/1029342221139509249

I love free. To get up to speed on ray tracing, go get the books here (just in case you can’t click on Pete’s link above), or here (our site, which shows related links, reviews, etc.). Then go to the SIGGRAPH DXR ray tracing course site – there’s even an implementation of the example that’s the cover of Pete’s first book.

Up to speed already? Start writing an article for Ray Tracing Gems. At SIGGRAPH we found that a few people thought they had missed the proposals deadline. There is no proposals deadline. The first real deadline is October 15th, for completed articles. We will judge submissions, and may reject some, but our goal is to try to work with any interested authors before then, to make sure they’re writing something we’ll accept. So, you can informally write and bounce ideas off of us. We avoided the “proposals” step in order to give people more time to write and submit their ideas, large and small.

BTW, as far as free goes, we’re aiming to make the e-book version of Ray Tracing Gems free, and also having the authors maintain reprint rights for their works.

All for now. Day’s not over yet.