Maxwell Render | Official public forum

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HO ... 29/172373/

Tops Systems Corp of Japan, a venture involved in multicore technology, together with Toyota Motor Corp and Nihon Unisys Ltd, both of Japan, is developing a dedicated integrated circuit (IC) for ray tracing*, an image rendering method used in 3D computer graphics (3D CG) processing. A total of 73 heterogeneous cores designed specifically for ray tracing operations will be single-chipped, and nine of these chips interconnected (see Fig). With high-definition (HD) resolution at 1920 x 1080 pixels, the target processing speed is 800 tera floating point operations per second (TFLOPS).

The Toyota Motor rendering system, unlike conventional ray tracing systems, splits visible light into 35 wavebands, and calculates optical properties such as reflection and refraction for objects individually for each waveband.

I would be interested to see how this differs from the internal workings of Maxwell.