You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

Because of the elaborate gif, countless foreigners who saw the post no longer questioned it blindly, and ran to download the engine with a dubious attitude.

After downloading, first of all, of course, is to test the real-time ray tracing that Lu Xiaochan boasted.

In this experiment, I don’t know how many people had the same reaction as Lu Xiaochan—disassemble the case and see what model their graphics card is.

Feedback from the first batch of tryers was sent back in the forum.

"God, you must not believe it, I used an A card to run such an effect, yes, even an A card!"

"Downloaded with the mentality of being critical, and now I just want to brag about it. There is no doubt that this is the greatest technological breakthrough of the year. An unknown team, some bragging that no one believes, but it is not expected that everything is true Yes, this is too dramatic and legendary."

"I'm different from you. I didn't experiment with ray tracing for the first time, but tried other functions of the engine. It must be said that you really shouldn't be dazzled by ray tracing. It achieves the ultimate in performance optimization, perfect Free up the graphics card, free up the hardware."

"I am a loyal RTX user and an avid game screen controller. I am very happy to see that someone has finally reduced the hardware requirements from the algorithm level, which means that I can play 4k8k ray tracing games! Long live technology!"

"I saw that the development team said on the official website that it will open source code step by step, which means that we can learn the implementation principle of this ray tracing one day? I can't wait!"

"You can log on to github now, they have released part of the source code. These codes shocked me again, remember what they said? All the existing algorithms of graphics have been improved, I want to tell you, this is real."

"Everyone should go to github to fork this project. You will learn a lot from it. You will find that the greatness of the end engine is not only in ray tracing, but also in other directions."

Looking at these rainbow farts, Lu Xiaochan felt elation in her heart, as if she was the one who was being praised, and she also had a secret sense of elation: this is the work of a Chinese.

She suddenly found that she was busy helping others to promote it, and she hadn't had time to take a closer look at the source code.

She opened github and found the terminal engine.

The project earned 200 stars in just three hours.

Stars are a standard used by the website to evaluate the value of a project. The more stars there are, the more popular the project is. For a new account with no fans, 200 stars in three hours is an incredible speed.

Lu Xiaochan first opened the readme file.This is the entry of the project, where the developer will describe how to use the project.

As soon as the readme is opened, there is a long list of directories, each of which is an optimization of a traditional algorithm.

She browsed through, skimmed through three or five entries, and realized: This is definitely not an ordinary open source project.

This project has already matured to the point that no one else needs to contribute code. They are ordinary salted fish, as long as they learn.

Lu Xiaochan immediately summoned everyone in the technical team, "Pause the work for a while."

"What's the matter, Miss Chan?"

"I decided to overthrow our game and redo it."

"What?!" The entire studio was shocked, "Sister Xiao Chan, are you serious?"

"Based on the Unreal 4 engine, we have optimized what we can do to the extreme, but the hardware requirements are still so high. So I decided...to change the engine."

"This……"

"Don't ask, just take a look at this new engine." She sent everyone the official website and github link of the terminal engine.

"Overthrowing and redoing, how much work is this, our development budget..." Everyone still questioned.

"Just look at it and you will know that the work of the technical team has been suspended for the past two days, and everyone will concentrate on learning this new engine!"

Everyone had to go back and download the terminal engine as required.

Half an hour later, there was a sound of lying and gasping in the office of the technical team.

After three days like this, the terminal engine became more and more popular in the small circle of graphics. Finally, a big guy in the IT field thoroughly understood all open source codes and non-open source functions of the terminal engine, and made a tutorial.

He is a big internet celebrity with a lot of fans, and he spread the tutorial on social media, which quickly sparked a large-scale discussion.

Some praised, but also puzzled.

"What's new about the terminal engine?"

In this regard, the big cow was very surprised: "Jesus, you don't even know!"

He posted a new post, this time directly posting a link to the official website of the terminal engine, "I thought I didn't need to repeat its greatness, but I didn't expect that so many people didn't know that the 'graphics terminal has arrived', Hey, I just want to tell you: the finish engine is number one in the world!"

A few hours later, a weighty account retweeted his tutorial.

SIGGRAPH: In the history of graphics—no, there has never been such a large-scale technological breakthrough in the same field in the history of the world. The terminal engine not only did it, but even promised to share the source code with the world!Thanks to the development team of the terminal engine - the light chaser, you will surely leave a strong mark in the history of the world's computer!

SIGGRAPH is an international top graphics research organization.

Their annual conference held at the end of July every year has become the most influential CG exchange conference in the world.It is no exaggeration to say that it is the holy land of graphics.

The appreciation from SIGGRAPH has pushed the terminal engine to the top of the IT industry.

The forwarding of another group of people made the terminal engine successfully out of the circle, from the IT circle to the general public.

The first to comment was Heavy Rain, and they praised without hesitation: "After the 2018 Nvidia, the highlight of this year belongs to the terminal engine. The new era of CG has completely kicked off, and the era of comprehensively taking off in game quality has come. "

Then came the EA who developed the Sims series, and they said with emotion: "The technical team can't help but make a real machine demonstration demo, which is really amazing. Every technological breakthrough can shake our hearts, it is so amazing , just like the light in the game."

V Agency, the developer of steam, couldn't help but express his opinion: "If there is no open source, there would be no Internet extending in all directions today, and there would be no such prosperous artificial intelligence. What a romantic concept open source is, and what a great team the Light Chasers are!"

Of course, Ubisoft, the famous potato planting base, is indispensable. They are very excited: "God, are the end point and the light chaser the angels you sent down! What about potatoes? My dear, with the end point engine, potatoes can also run Assassin's Creed!"

The terminal engine became popular all over the world, and quickly climbed to the hot list of github. It received [-] stars in the first week, and another [-] stars in the second.

In just half a month, the terminal engine ranks at the top of the leaderboard with [-] stars!

When the popularity reached its peak, SIGGRAPH posted another update: "Does anyone know the contact information of the Light Chaser team? Unfortunately, I can't find it on the official website. We hope to invite them to participate in this year's SIGGRAPH conference."

Someone said in the comments: "This conference is really worth looking forward to. An improved software for deep space, an improved algorithm for light chasers, CG is about to usher in a big explosion!"

"The Light Chasers are a team from China, I only know so much."

"How do you know that the light chasers are from China? Arrogant Chinese."

"The first version of the project introduction is in Chinese, and it can still be found in the historical version records. Have you read it carefully?"

Not only SIGGRAPH wants to find light chasers, but countless media and IT people want to find them to find out who they are.

Lou Qingyan knew nothing about this. A few days after the company dinner, all the papers were submitted one after another, and he began to assign new tasks to Xie Jin and others.

"The terminal engine is the final extraction of traditional graphics. After the extraction, we will not pay attention to traditional graphics."

It's still the same conference room, and it's still the same whiteboard.

On the left side of the whiteboard are still displayed the words "Virtual World Architecture", "Plenoptic Function Application", "Realistic Graphics", and "First Generation VR Audio-Visual Equipment".

Lou Qingyan crossed out the words "realistic graphics" and said to everyone: "When the code is uploaded to github, people from all over the world will help us maintain it, so from now on, forget all the development experience of the terminal engine. , as if it were no longer our project."

"Let's talk about it now," he turned his head and stared at the crowd, "Graphics 2.0."

"Graphics 2.0?"

Before Lou Qingyan could speak, there was a knock on the meeting room door.

Everyone was surprised to find that it was Jiang Fu who walked in.

"It took a while to answer the phone, have you started yet?" There was still one vacant seat in the meeting room, which was the deputy seat at one end of the long table, and he walked over to sit down, just opposite to Lou Qingyan at the other end.

"You came just in time, you just talked about the concept of future graphics."

Everyone looked at Jiang Fu and then at him, with doubts on their faces.

Lou Qingyan said: "I forgot to tell you, because the next development is very tight and must be completed before the SIGGRAPH conference in August, so I invited you a strong foreign aid."

"Wow! The Great God came to give us foreign aid!"

Amid everyone's applause, Jiang Fu nodded slightly.

"Jiang Fu is positioned as a mathematical engineer in the team. Our future development will be based on very complex optical function calculations, which you cannot handle."

Fully arousing everyone's curiosity, Lou Qingyan said again: "Now that I'm here, let me tell you about the division of labor for the new project."

"The new project will be a very huge underlying framework. It is so huge that there are not enough of us. We must subdivide each part of the work to you, and you subdivide it to the people under your own hands."

"I will come up with the algorithm logic, and Jiang Fu will come up with the functions. You design specific algorithms based on logic and functions, and let your subordinates complete the code writing."

Xie Jin asked: "A system as complex as a graphics engine can be developed by more than a dozen of us. What is more difficult to make than it?"

"Of course it's a lower level, more basic thing." Lou Qingyan said.

Xie Jin straightened up all of a sudden, "It can't be... API?"

"That's right." Lou Qingyan said, "The two existing graphics APIs, openGL and DirectX, are too traditional and can't keep up with our development."

"The terminal engine squeezed out the potential of these two APIs, no matter what you do later, there will be no breakthrough."

"At this point, we have only one way left."

"Developing new APIs based on Graphics 2.0."

"Back to the topic." Lou Qingyan said again, "What do you think, Graphics 2.0 is?"

In fact, everyone has thought about this question for a long time. With a boss like Lou Qingyan, it is inevitable that I will also think about some future things.

Xie Jin said: "Traditional graphics is based on manpower, and future graphics is based on AI?"

What he summed up is the current mainstream view in the industry.

Traditional graphics requires people to manually model, manually make animations, manually shoot and edit flat images, and so on.

But AI is encroaching on this field step by step. Lou Qingyan has already made some achievements in this area - AI modeling, AI animation, AI generated pictures, AI generated videos and so on.

"This is one aspect, what else?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

What they think of is the level of AI.

"Jiang...Brother Jingshen." Lou Qingyan called his name.

Although the two had a lot of exchanges, they never exchanged this aspect.He wanted to know what Jiang Fu thought about this.

However, as soon as the other party's name was called at the beginning, he felt awkward for a while. Before the word "Jiang" fell, he began to regret quickly in his heart: Is this tone too blunt?

His tone and address took a sharp turn, but after the turn, it seemed even weirder, which made him even more regretful.

However, on the surface, he was very serious and showed no emotion at all.

Jiang Fu seemed to be unable to restrain himself, slightly raised the corner of his mouth, but soon returned to indifference.

"There are two directions of innovation in graphics in the future," he said calmly. "One is to replace human beings with AI, and the other is..."

He looked at Lou Qingyan.

Strangely, the moment he opened his lips, Lou Qingyan unconsciously opened his mouth at the same time.

The voices of the two overlapped in perfect sync.

"Light fields replace gratings."

Lou Qingyan's pen landed on the whiteboard, and circled the four characters "Plenoptic Function".

"From AI software, to graphics engine, to API and hardware, and finally to the concept, we step by step, from the outside to the inside, and finally touched the deepest things in graphics."

"There are only three months left, and there is only one last bit of work to be done, which is to refine the concepts and express them with APIs and GPUs."

"At this year's SIGGRAPH conference, I want you to spark a worldwide—"

"Graphics Revolution!"