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Re:PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future ... by 1stop on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:45PM (#7426531)
But that is because of hardware capability... i.e. computers weren't good enough for artists to work with... wasn't it?

I've been out of the 3D world for a while, but Ray tracing was the be-all-end-all/holy grail of 3d. It is simulating light... you can't do better than physics.

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Re:PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future ... by chacham15 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:26AM (#7426974)
Raytracing has its limitations, subsurface scattering for example.
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Re:PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future ... by stcredzero on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @04:28AM (#7427345)
But don't those go away with enough compute resources?
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