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>> Anything can be realtime if you set the bar low enough. I was doing "realtime ray tracing" on Pentium class computers in the 1990s. I took my toy ray tracer
by phkahler 3y ago
>> Anything can be realtime if you set the bar low enough.
I was doing "realtime ray tracing" on Pentium class computers in the 1990s. I took my toy ray tracer and made an OLE control and put it inside a small Visual Basic app which handled keypress-navigation. It could run in a tiny little window (size of a large icon) at reasonable frame rates. Might even say it was using Visual Basic! So yeah "realtime" needs some qualifiers ;-)
- TeMPOraL 3y agoFair, but today it could probably run 30FPS full-screen at 2K resolution, without any special effort, on an average consumer-grade machine; better if ported to take advantage of the GPU. Moore's law may be dead in general, but computing power still increases (notwithstanding the software bloat that makes it seem otherwise), and it's still something to count on wrt. bleeding edge research demos.