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That's because it's a moving goalpost. Pixar keeps increasing the quality to take advantage of faster hardware and better algorithms. We'll never be close to g
by learc83 8y ago
That's because it's a moving goalpost. Pixar keeps increasing the quality to take advantage of faster hardware and better algorithms.
We'll never be close to getting today's real-time Pixar-quality until Pixar rendering is good enough that they stop meaningfully improving it. What we can have is yesterday's Pixar quality rendering in-game.
- minikites 8y agoExactly, look at the first Toy Story and compare that to something like The Witcher 3.
- MisterTea 8y agoThat should be a new goal post: can it render a pixar film in real-time. e.g. Do we have a Toy Story capable card yet? (Note: I know offline rendering and real-time raster rendering we use in GPU's are completely different methods. But there is a point where the raster trickery can catch up and match the offline stuff.)
- gmueckl 8y agoToday's GPU are probably much closer to what Renderman was doing back when Toy Story was made than you think. They used an algorithm called REYES, which has nothing to do with raytracing and in fact can only barely be made to combine with ray tracing at all [1]. It was completely thrown out of Renderman only on the last couple of years for that reason. REYES really is an early take on rasterization with tesselation, designed for hardware with extreme memory constraints. Although the actual tesselation algorithm works differently from GPU hardware tesselation, the basic idea of tesselating dynamically to the required level of detail for the current frame carried over intonthe hardware. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering