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NJ5 on 24 September 2009
Hephaestos said:
so if I understood ray-tracing correctly, in the glaces picture, the diffraction of the background objects is due to this and not some remodeling? So that means that the virtual materials have the exact same (or close) light reflecting and refracting attributes as their real counterparts?
a telescope in ray-tracing would actually work and not just zoom in? (in theory)

Yeah ray-tracing gives you a lot of optical effects without any additional work...

 



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Hephaestos on 25 September 2009

thanks for confirming!

then yeah ray tracing is a great improvement for realistic effects. It could have also great use for a gaming environement...



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dtewi on 25 September 2009
NJ5 said:
Keep_the_change said:
I've read about ray tracing, seen videos of it on youtube, saw message boards about it and I still not getting what it is about and what so impressive about it.

It's an image rendering technique which works by tracing an independent ray of light for each pixel in the rendered image. This ray can realistically bounce off (or shine through) all kinds of materials and light sources, which results in very realistic lighting and material effects when done right.

You can see some impressive examples of raytraced images here:

http://hof.povray.org/

For example:

 

 

Holy fuck, that is the most realistic thing I've ever seen besides life.



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Slimebeast on 26 September 2009
NJ5 said:
Keep_the_change said:
I've read about ray tracing, seen videos of it on youtube, saw message boards about it and I still not getting what it is about and what so impressive about it.

It's an image rendering technique which works by tracing an independent ray of light for each pixel in the rendered image. This ray can realistically bounce off (or shine through) all kinds of materials and light sources, which results in very realistic lighting and material effects when done right.

You can see some impressive examples of raytraced images here:

http://hof.povray.org/

For example:

 

 

Maybe in 15 years we'll have the hardware powerful enuff to run games like this. But I doubt it. (I bet that pic took several minutes or even hours to render)

About the news in the OP. Doubt that game will look anything special. There's no hardware to run it properly. It's a power-hungry technique.



HanzoTheRazor on 26 September 2009

Cool!



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