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Right, it's photorealistic, but the scene content in that example has been carefully chosen to make the task feasible. It's clean and shiny and abstract.
by gmac 10y ago
Right, it's photorealistic, but the scene content in that example has been carefully chosen to make the task feasible. It's clean and shiny and abstract.
- willvarfar 10y agoThe image on wikipedia doesn't do it justice. There are many path tracing examples from siggraph, on youtube and showing up on images.google.com searches for path tracing.
- tudorw 10y agoThese gems look nice, http://www.rigidgems.sakura.ne.jp/gallery_en.html#movie http://www.rigidgems.sakura.ne.jp/gallery_en.html#movie and found this but my Russian is worse than my Japanese, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTvJi774-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTvJi774-s
- sillysaurus3 10y agoFor context, I think the only thing computer-generated in that youtube video is the monkey head and its shadow. The rest is real life footage.
- tudorw 10y agothanks I thought the detritus in the scene was very real, dirt and dust are still hard to get right!
- JoshTriplett 10y agoI posted the Wikipedia link for a description of path rendering, not for its sample image. For photorealistic samples, take a look at some of the photos from the Brigade engine: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.471466862887799.111426.198351220199366&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.471466862887799.11...