Nvidia Optix Examples

Nvidia optix ray tracing engine an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the gpu.

Nvidia optix examples. Nvidia optix is part of nvidia gameworks optix is a high level or to the algorithm api meaning that it is designed to encapsulate the entire. To search for the occurrences of a text string in this document enter text in the upper right box and press the enter key. This is a set of advanced samples for the nvidia optix ray tracing engine they assume some previous experience with optix and physically based rendering unlike the basic tutorial style samples in the sdk directory of the optix 4 0 distribution. Each is a self contained exe file that you merely need to rename to exe after downloading to make operational.

The api is designed to be stateless multi threaded. The computations are offloaded to the gpus through either the low level or the high level api introduced with cuda cuda is only available for nvidia s graphics products. To return to the search results from the document either click the search button or press the s key. The nvidia optix 7 api is a cuda centric api that is easily invoked by a cuda based application.

The optix ray tracing sdk. 5 release timeline jan 2016 summer 2016 today. The goal of the three initial introduction examples is to show how to port an existing optix application based on the previous optix 5 or 6 api to optix 7. Get started image courtesy tom.

Bring the power of nvidia gpus to your ray tracing applications with programmable intersection ray generation and shading. The file downloads on this page are ready to use examples of interactive ray tracing using the upcoming optix ray tracing engine. For that two of the existing optix introduction samples have been ported to the optix 7 0 0 sdk. Visit the nvidia website to watch a siggraph 2015 talk describing the system in detail.

Our final tutorial demonstrates the flexibility of optix and ray tracing in general by modifying the pinhole camera ray generation program from the very first example. This new camera shoots rays in a spherical distribution resulting in an image that can then be used as an environment map in another program or even as a background image in tutorial step 5. Advanced samples for the nvidia optix 7 ray tracing sdk. Nvidia optix optix application acceleration engine is a ray tracing api.

Optix 3 9 pascal support optix 4 0. 30 ptx generation options optix.