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29 Jul 2024 16:31:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I give up rendering...  
From: nemesis
Date: 26 Jan 2012 05:00:01
Message: <web.4f21232b34184307d71f8dc90@news.povray.org>
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?

> > 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.


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