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Increased use of ray tracing effects in games? Sign me up! Fully ray-traced game engines? Oh no not again. Damn you Nintendo for starting this nonsense with
by varelse 14y ago
Increased use of ray tracing effects in games? Sign me up!
Fully ray-traced game engines? Oh no not again. Damn you Nintendo for starting this nonsense with those faked Project Reality demos...
Graphics engines have more in common with street magic than simulation in that the best ones use just enough physics and mathematics to get the job done and not a bit more. Wake me up when John Carmack says ray-tracing is the next big thing.
That said, ray-tracing has all sorts of unconventional uses outside of strict computer graphics i.e.:
http://www.tomsarazac.com/tom/Bicycles/headlight-tracer.html http://www.tomsarazac.com/tom/Bicycles/headlight-tracer.html
- Lerc 14y agoJohn Carmack has said a number of times that it is not the next thing, but it is the thing after next (or the thing after). The benefits of ray tracing come in precisely because it is more like simulation than street magic. Once you get to sufficient complexity, it is too hard to maintain an illusion. The truth is more consistent than an elaborate lie. We are not yet close to that level of complexity. We will be eventually. Anyone putting a date on that time before it arrives is almost certainly going to be wrong.