Re:Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation...
by ur-whale on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:56PM
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Veach is in no way a "typical" person.
IIRC, he moved on from inventing a brand new rendering methodology inspired from oldie research in nuclear physics [0] to designing the S2 system at Google [1] to building one of the largest money-making machines in the ads world at Google [2][3].
IIRC, he moved on from inventing a brand new rendering methodology inspired from oldie research in nuclear physics [0] to designing the S2 system at Google [1] to building one of the largest money-making machines in the ads world at Google [2][3].
Not exactly your average engineer.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Veach
[2] https://uwaterloo.ca/math/people-profiles/eric-veach
[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/unsung-google-heros-2011-5?r...