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29 Jul 2024 16:21:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I give up rendering...  
From: Saul Luizaga
Date: 26 Jan 2012 08:44:51
Message: <4f2158d3@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Saul Luizaga<sau### [at] netscapenet>  wrote:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> And what do you call one who looks at a joke and takes it seriously?
>>
>> I wasn't looking at the joke, obviously. So, how do you call a person
>> that thinks he can understand to another, who honestly fails to
>> understand a third, but fails, pretending to be smarter by diminishing
>> when he is as wrong as the one he pretends to correct?
>
> A cynic?

I think depends on the attitude, do wanted to be a cynic? or did you 
wanted point out I was mistaken?

>>> Surely enough povray can render real reflections and GI with more than 1 bounce
>>> with radiosity -- though as the Crytek guys noted, 1 bounce is good enough for
>>> movies. For bonus with povray folks, you could even render a complete CSG
>>> Titanic made up from boxes and cylinders.  But surely enough the video shows how
>>> amazing to be able to do it real time with graphics that look good enough
>>> running on off-the-shelf hardware rather than some renderfarm.
>>
>> Of course raytracing rendering will be superior, to real-time 3D GPU
>> rendering, at least until GPUs can raytrace.
>
> They've been raytracing, pathtracing and running other general computations for
> several years now already.
>

Well, I meant like POV-Ray does it but 24 fps at full HD 720p/1080p 
screen resolution.


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