Adobe is demonstrating a new research project in the NVidia booth at SIGGRAPH, showing off some realtime raytracing effects for Adobe AfterEffects.  Using the power of Fermi GPU’s, they’re able to add effects like reflections and lighting into motion graphics all in real-time.  The Fermi GPU is so fast and their algorithm so optimized that they can actually scrub through the timeline in realtime.

What made it practical for Adobe to build this, and reach such high performance levels, was the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine. Adobe worked with NVIDIA to leverage OptiX to build their new renderer in just a few months. The job of OptiX is to let the developer concentrate on rendering while it handles all the intricacies of making it go fast on the GPU – and Adobe’s results are proving it’s good at its job.

Check out the live demo below.

via Adobe & NVIDIA Team Up for Ray Traced Compositing.