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Re: what do you think on raytracing

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W dniu poniedziałek, 21 marca 2016 20:42:52 UTC+1 użytkownik Öö Tiib napisał:
> On Monday, 21 March 2016 18:19:00 UTC+2, fir  wrote:
> > are some people here maybe that had some 
> > knowledge experiance and
> > are able to share some view?
> 
> Ray tracing has been around for almost half a century and basics 
> of it are rather simple so everyone has perhaps tried it. Lot 
> of commercial CADs and at least dozen of open source ones offer
> it as a feature so it is likely not worth to write a new ray tracer.
> 
> It is too expensive to produce good images real time with it unless
> we have rather powerful hardware or limited scene. The transparency,
> reflection, dispersion and shadow look more natural than with other
> algorithms. 
> 
> So if you want to add visual effects or rendered objects to movie
> or picture then ray tracing gives quite good photo-realism, but if
> you want to make a real time action game then other rendering
> algorithms have likely better performance.

raytracing gives weird way of photorealism
(sorta syntetic look), global ilumination /radiocity gives much better (though probably still syntetic and damn slow)

meybe yet some more indepth comments (i was trying raytracing a bit, but still dont know what to think on it - doing it consumes time)

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what do you think on raytracing fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 09:18 -0700
  Re: what do you think on raytracing Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-03-21 12:42 -0700
    Re: what do you think on raytracing fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 14:01 -0700
  Re: what do you think on raytracing Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-22 15:00 -0500
  Re: what do you think on raytracing BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-25 22:51 -0500
    Re: what do you think on raytracing fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 02:23 -0700

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