Tachyon is a parallel raytracer / renderer used in combination with the Intel® Inspector tutorial.

This example includes software developed by John E. Stone. See here for copyright information.

Quick Start on Windows*
  1. Install Intel® Parallel Studio XE
  2. See tachyon_insp_xe\msvc\README.txt file. For more details, please use the tutorial from the Intel® Inspector product.
Quick Start on Linux*
  1. Install Intel® Parallel Studio XE
  2. Use the project as directed in the Intel® Inspector tutorial.
System Requirements:
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Build Instructions:
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