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'Essentially, then, ray tracing tries to find the right information in a database as quickly as possible. ' Huh - that isn't really describing the core princip

• far33d 19y ago
  Well sure it is. You are doing intersections of rays with the "scene database". The biggest bottleneck in MOST raytracing systems is ray-intersection, not shading or lighting calculations, especially for complex things like refraction, reflection (and even worse with high-curvature surfaces). It's not a relational database, but really, you are just doing complex database queries..
  • comatose_kid 19y ago
    It may be the largest bottleneck (although I had thought light transport was), but I wasn't talking about bottlenecks, I was just observing that this was not the clearest way to summarize the concept of raytracing.
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