I think quantum computers won't be very efficient in raytracing.
Since the thing they thrive on is calculating several possibilities
at once... Oh, well, a thought strikes me: They will be able to
compute all imaginable raytraced scenes _at_once_

This would be the end of raytracing. :-(

STOP QUANTUM COMPUTING AT ONCE!!!!

Markus
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 Ich nicht eine Sekunde!!!" H. Heinol in Val Thorens


Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> hehehe I hope... but Quantum computers are such a GIANT leap forward,
> that I don't think we can conceive of a rendering application that would
> take long enough to bother one...Current computers would take 1000's of
> years to crack RSA encryption...With quantum computers cracking it in
> under and hour (I remember 20 minutes vaguely, and someone else posted
> 11 seconds) the jump is incredible... Have you ever started a 1000 year
> render?  I don't think so... (except maybe that one Spider sent... it
> never did finish the bounding boxes on my computer)

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