POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Back-raytracing for real : Re: Back-raytracing for real Server Time
1 Aug 2024 20:08:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back-raytracing for real  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 10 May 2005 16:32:25
Message: <pan.2005.05.10.20.32.22.213607@nospam.com>
On Tue, 10 May 2005 16:18:50 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jellby <me### [at] privacynet> wrote:
>> download the 60MB movie and marvel at the card-trick at the end.
> 
>   The page says it's a 9.6 MB video, and the link gives a 404.

The page is wrong - it's 61 MB in size - and the demonstration is quite
amazing.  There might be some techniques in there that could be of use
here...

I'm not entirely convinced yet that this isn't a hoax, though - basically
what they're suggesting is that through their techniques, you could
reconstruct a hidden surface using the reflections off of a non-reflective
surface, but I'm not totally convinced that that's possible given the
dispersal of light.

But the video is still pretty cool. :-)

Jim


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