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by swerner 8y ago
That would be wonderful. If I could get OpenGL support for current generation NVIDIA or AMD hardware, ideally with OpenCL or Vulkan too (CUDA is probably too much to ask for), I would even be able to use Haiku for my daily work.
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by swerner 8y ago
It was built with threading in mind throughout, which was unusual for the time. Remember, it took until C++11 until threads became part of the language.
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by swerner 8y ago
This is a very faithful reimplementation if BeOS, which means it shares one unfortunate limitation with it: The lack of drivers. Already back in '99, not leveraging 3D hardware was a problem for adoption. These days even more so, as no
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by swerner 8y ago
SSS has been done with point clouds for a long time. Only recently have films switched to ray tracing for SSS. Games these days implement SSS in screen space using rasterisation, no rays tracing either.
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by swerner 8y ago
It's much simpler than that: Both rasterisation and ray tracing are methods to solve visibility. The main difference is that one answers the question "given a primitive, what pixels does it overlap?", the other "given a
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by swerner 8y ago
No, I can't unfortunately. Too many apps rely on web backends that have been upgraded and are incompatible with the versions that run on iPad 1. For example, the built-in YouTube application on iPad 1 is completely non-functional. Also
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by swerner 8y ago
If longevity is what they want, they should release private keys and hardware specs for hardware that they drop from their own OS updates. That way, we could continue using old iPads and iPhones, albeit with custom Android builds.
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by swerner 8y ago
Back then, we thought those were bloated web pages. Litte did we know.
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by swerner 8y ago
15 years of experience in 3D application development outside of the of film industry, two years of contributions to Blender and a lot of luck of being at the right place at the right time. In my opinion, don't write your own renderer u
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by swerner 8y ago
Thanks, I was wrong then.
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by swerner 8y ago
Just compare "South Park" to "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". CGI can't replace a good script.
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by swerner 8y ago
AO and soft shadows are orthogonal and are often used simultaneously. A few direct light sources (point lights, spots, infinite) with soft shadows and additionally an environment light (dome or half dome) with AO.
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by swerner 8y ago
https://www.ustream.tv/NVIDIA Real-time demo at 19m30s.
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by swerner 8y ago
Who mentioned failure? I'm merely explaining why and how Nvidia can show 5 rays/pixel @ 25pfs while we're at the same time budgeting several hours per frame for state of the art production rendering. Sure, more and better har
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by swerner 8y ago
It is never mentioned explicitly, but my hunch would be that primary visibility is still done using rasterisation and that ray tracing is only used for reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion. This is how most film rendering was done ten
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by swerner 8y ago
> But if the consumer can't tell the difference, does it matter? The consumer gets used to it. The CG effects in Toy Story 1 look dated, and if you were to watch the Incredibles and the Incredibles 2 back to back, you would also not
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by swerner 8y ago
The special issue of the ACM Transactions on Graphics has several articles describing the inner workings of some current production renderers: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3243123&picked=prox
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by swerner 8y ago
Since there's some confusion in a few threads, here a little bit of explanation. I spent the last ~18 months speeding up a production renderer for an upcoming animated feature. 29 hours for a frame is high but not unusual. Referred to
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by swerner 8y ago
> Whether we like to admit it or not alcohol has left a giant, negative, impact on our society. I don't think anyone disputes that. The question at hand however is if the legal status of alcohol has any influence on the impact, and
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by swerner 8y ago
Unless Apple surprises us with an iOS 5 update that includes a browser with web assembly - no, it won't help. Either way, simply going to spiegel.de crashes (!) Safari in a 1st gen iPad. The Washington Post web page also would constant
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by swerner 8y ago
What good is a refurbished but old iPhone these days when there is no more software for it? Even when you're lucky enough to have backup copies of older software versions, the web APIs most rely on have been discontinued.
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by swerner 8y ago
I wish I could use my phones longer than I already do. Unfortunately, the lack of software updates for older hardware turns that into a security risk as even critical issues are no longer getting fixed. Likewise, the 'modern' web
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by swerner 9y ago
Beers today taste nothing like they did back then. Microbiology aside (today's beer is made with pure-bred yeast, back then it was a wild mix of microbes), pale malt was not produced until the 17th or 18th centre, and the pale lager be
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by swerner 9y ago
As others mentioned, asset sizes are one problem. I'm currently involved in a production where render nodes got upgraded to 128GB RAM, since 64GB wasn't enough. Also, path tracing may superficially at first glance look like a good
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by swerner 9y ago
It demonstrates how going from cultured land to a natural reserve doesn't necessarily lead to a balanced ecosystem. There you have a herbivore population that requires culling in order to prevent mass starvation from exhausting the foo
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by swerner 9y ago
The question is, is the current landscape in Germany an adequate habitat for a predator that claims large territories? Last time there was a native wolf population in Germany, there was no Autobahn, no large corn fields for bioethanol and g
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by swerner 9y ago
I have to say, I can observe some mixed standards in this regard: "Deer eat saplings" - "Kill the deer!" "Wolves eat livestock" - "Don't shoot, get a fence."
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by swerner 9y ago
> Lastly, there is actually a legal minimum number of deer that hunters need to shoot a year. (excuse the German links please, I don't have any references in English for the following) Not only a minimum number, but an exact number:
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by swerner 9y ago
Those are the questions we'll never be able to answer for sure. All we can observe are correlations and cannot draw certain causations from it. Ecosystems are complex and its variables change constantly. The appearance of wolves was on
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by swerner 9y ago
The "wolves fix Yellowstone" narrative may be oversimplyfying things. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-...

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