On 20/07/2011 12:22 PM, Warp wrote:

>    Although, to be fair, most (if not all) the rendering software that are
> capable of rendering realistic-looking fur are using tricks to make it
> look realistic instead of simulating what happens in real life

...which is kind of my point. You can't render and illuminate hundreds 
of thousands of complex shapes "directly". It's impossible. (Or at 
least, utterly infeasible.) The fact that so many people now do CGI hair 
means that somebody somewhere has found a way to fake it. I'm wondering 
if anybody knows what that is.

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