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Raytracing is sort of like nuclear fusion: a few years away for my entire life. Not clear what changed yet.
by pkilgore 9y ago
Raytracing is sort of like nuclear fusion: a few years away for my entire life. Not clear what changed yet.
- MBCook 9y agoWell I imagine today’s GPU would be more than capable of doing an amazing looking game at 320x240 or maybe 640x480 at a reasonable frame rate. The problem is at this point people want it at 1080, 4k or 8k.
- gnode 9y agoThe goalposts have also moved in terms of quality. Raytracing these days no longer just means point light sources and mirrors, but full global illumination with bidirectional path tracing. Rasterization has improved a lot over the years, so the meaning of "raytracing" has to improve to be competitive.