Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/04 12:49:
> scott wrote:
> 
>>> I'm still mystified (get it?) as to how it manages to render with 
>>> absolutely no visible grain of any kind to it. Even POV-Ray struggles 
>>> to do that given many *days* of rendering time...
>>>
>>> Clearly some kind of trick must be involved.
>>
>> Not really, just utilising the GPU's ability to handle 3D textures and 
>> smooth blending really efficiently.  Don't forget the GPU version is 
>> not scattering light like POV does...
> 
> ...GPUs can do 3D texturing now?
Yes, and it's not even a new possibility! My old, totaly obsolete, and presently 
unused, PCI Matrox Mystic was able to do some elementary 3D texturing, just not 
to the same extent as todays cards and at a much lower resolution. It could'nt 
do smooth blending or shading.

-- 
Alain
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