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Famous 1984 distributed ray tracing image [1] remains one of my all-time favorite CG images. (Scroll to last page.) 1: http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs6965/papers/p
by gdubs 13y ago
Famous 1984 distributed ray tracing image [1] remains one of my all-time favorite CG images. (Scroll to last page.)
1: http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs6965/papers/p137-cook.pdf http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs6965/papers/p137-cook.pdf
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoThat is absolutely mind-boggling for 1984. I especially love the reflections. It's not even noticeable unless you look carefully, but you can see reflections of cluttered windows, a light-up sign, and a human silhouette. I'd love to rotate the camera and see what their actual out-of-frame scene looks like.
- gdubs 13y agoYea, it's crazy. My hunch is that they used reflection mapping for those details like the windows. It's hard to believe this was done in '84 when you look at the other graphics being rendered around then. People have redone this image, and it never looks as realistic.
- s-macke 13y agoDon't forget the first rendered fur. http://simulationcorner.net/fur.png http://simulationcorner.net/fur.png The bear looks still so nice. Even nowadays The picture is from this paper from 1989: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=74361 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=74361
- gdubs 13y agoGreat image, hadn't seen that one before. The lighting model is beautiful.
- fractallyte 13y agoI remember seeing this image in an issue of Scientific American, and for many years could not believe it was computer generated. It was just so out of the ordinary for CG at the time.