Severi Salminen wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> Brute-force rendering may generate more *physically correct* renderings
>> - but that does not necessarily correlate with "better looking" results.
>> Anybody who's been doing 3D graphics for more than a few days will
>> quickly figure that one out. ;-)
> 
> You are correct: I was really talking about photorealistim. But I don't
> think brute-force means you couldn't exaggerate things or create
> effects. It just means that the results are more accurate looking. Of
> course, if you want to have a large area light which casts sharp
> shadows...or transparent objects that create full shadows. :) I wouldn't
> consider that a big loss.

And *I* was merely pointing out that "more scientifically correct" 
doesn't in any way directly correlate with "better looking". ;-)

[For example, take a sphere and make it reflective. It still doesn't 
*look* reflective until you give it something to reflect. Indeed, 
sometimes I feed scenes into POV-Ray, and they actually LOOK WRONG, even 
though they are of course correct. The human eye is funny like that...]

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