PICA PICA

Projects | 2018 | Links: Video | Website

PICA PICA is a real-time ray tracing experiment featuring self-learning agents in a procedurally-assembled world. Built using SEED’s R&D engine Halcyon, this AI playground showcases real-time ray tracing using Microsoft DXR.

This demo showcases several novel approaches developed specifically for real-time ray tracing, including ray traced reflections, ambient occlusion, soft shadows, transparency, translucency and sub surface scattering, as well as dynamic global illumination.

PICA PICA Presentations:

• GDC and GTC 2018
• DirectX: Evolving Microsoft’s Graphics Platform
• Shiny Pixels and Beyond: Real-Time Raytracing at SEED
• Introduction to DirectX Raytracing
• Creativity of Rules and Patterns: Designing Procedural Systems
• Exploring The Collaboration Between Proceduralism & Deep Learning
• Functional Symbiosis of Art Direction and Proceduralism
• Game Ray Tracing: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems
• PICA PICA & NVIDIA Turing,
• Stochastic all the things: Ray tracing in hybrid real-time rendering
• Toward real-time photo realism using real-time ray tracing

SEED PICA PICA GDC 2018 Announcement Video.