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Re: what do you think on raytracing

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W dniu sobota, 26 marca 2016 04:51:41 UTC+1 użytkownik BGB napisał:
> On 3/21/2016 11:18 AM, fir wrote:
> > are some people here maybe that had some
> > knowledge experiance and
> > are able to share some view?
> >
> 
> looks good for a reasonably simple design.
> fairly slow, and doesn't scale all that well (almost usable on the GPU, 
> but you pay in other areas). this leaves it better to batch jobs where 
> speed isn't as much of an issue (though, some studios have basically 
> just used scaled up versions of game style rendering so that render 
> times are less painful, and on the higher end of quality faces off with 
> even slower technologies).
> 
> generally complex and hairy hybrids of raster rendering and fancy 
> lighting effects (via depth-textures and shaders, ...) are done because 
> they are easier to make work in real-time.
> 
> another possible hybrid would be pairing low-resolution rendering in a 
> raytracer with higher resolution rendering done via raster rendering 
> (and some hackery involving the depth buffer and shaders) so the 
> raytracer can do more realistic lighting without forcing an unreasonably 
> low resolution. it is unclear though how well it could compete with 
> other options.

i still wonder if i should invest my time in it or maybe there is something more time worthy
i made simple raytracing once, wonder if to go more into it..hard answer

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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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