(Almost) Real-Time Path Tracing

[Mel]

Practical for what? the interactive rendering should be faster.

[ent1ty]

also, running 320x240(or the 16:9 equivalent) fullscreen on a 1920x1080 monitor which seems to be the standard these days won't be very pretty.
Anyway, there are real time path tracers out there already http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZ33YoKu9w

[chronologicaldot]

Hi guys,

I actually developed a realtime ray tracer driver for Irrlicht a few years ago but I didn't do anything with it (It was pure software and used all CPU cores and SSE2 SIMD vector instructions + BVH tree structure). It's sitting collecting dust on an old laptop of mine

Here is a screenshot of it running at (I think 60 fps on my old quadcore):


I had a demo you can run online somewhere but I misplaced it

That looks really pretty.
Looking for ray tracing info, I managed to stumble on the thread where you first spoke about this.
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... ay+tracing

Any plans to revive it (though probably in the very distant future)?