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comment by thundara
thundara  ·  4323 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John Carmack on Raytracing

Well, it's the common algorithm used by a bunch of different rendering plugins for professional 3d design: V-Ray, RenderMan, MentalRay to name a few. That day would be many, many years ago. Note that those are used for both realistic and non-realistic rendering as ray-tracers tend to give much more control over the lighting parameters than the default renderers in most packages.





sphericalvoxel  ·  4323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Context, man! The post is about real-time raytracing, not professional 3D design.