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Nvidia ray tracing API using CUDA to compute on GPUs
Nvidia OptiX is a ray tracing API that was first developed around 2009. 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. 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 algorithm of which ray tracing is a part, not just the ray tracing itself. This is meant to allow the OptiX engine to execute the larger algorithm with great flexibility without application-side changes. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: OptiXA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Optix regulates nanomorphology of butterfly scales primarily via its effects on pigmentationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Semiconductor quantum opticsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: OptiXCited 523 times
- Go sideways: Nvidia RTXA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
OptiX
optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry
The Drosophila homeobox gene optix is capable of inducing ectopic eyes by an eyeless-independent mechanism
Multiple recent co-options of Optix associated with novel traits in adaptive butterfly wing radiations
Fly Six‐type homeodomain proteins Sine oculis and Optix partner with different cofactors during eye development
Optix defines a neuroepithelial compartment in the optic lobe of the Drosophila brain
Partner specificity is essential for proper function of the SIX-type homeodomain proteins Sine oculis and Optix during fly eye development
Antennapedia and optix regulate metallic silver wing scale development and cell shape in Bicyclus anynana butterflies
🆕 Influential since 2022
Optix regulates nanomorphology of butterfly scales primarily via its effects on pigmentation
Optix and cortex/ivory/mir-193 again: the repeated use of two mimicry hotspot loci
Opticks: GPU Optical Photon Simulation via NVIDIA OptiX
LiMOX—A Point Cloud Lidar Model Toolbox Based on NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine
Optix Regulated the Expression of NlObps to Participate in the Recognition of a Volatile Strongly Emitted from Rice Plants
📚 Books worth reading
Semiconductor quantum opticsMackillo Kira, Stephan W. Koch · 2008
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