Let’s kick things off with the one in the title. Rain is one of the most complicated aspects of computer rendering. Millions of tiny water particles falling dynamically can be difficult to simulate.

Instead of processing images using a computer’s CPU, Octane Render uses the machine’s graphics processing unit, together with the CPU, to greatly accelerate processing speeds. The results are dramatic ...

Computer graphics research has always pushed the boundaries of software and hardware, forcing us to ask the question: “If the technology were fast enough, what else could be done?” Thankfully, as ...

Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. Also, the results of such a model can be ...

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, ...

Yet the full blown desktop computer (PC, Mac, or Foleo) with a lot more processing power at its disposal can't even do a simple one-time resize without using the ugly nearest neighbor algorithm.