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and is not really a thread, but simply his personal blog

I never really contributed pics of what I do. Which is, mostly, just writing sphere tracers. Slow, buggy sphere tracers. But my recent work looks quite arty imho, so I collected images. at start, didn't even have colors. but reflections http://i.imgur.com/cxqN2qU.png put in some colors in http://i.i...

didn't get the mail. but read the thread, looked into the adressbar, and changed my bookmark.

nice.

never a problem as there's no environment interaction and stuff going on. the global part is where raytracing/pathtracing etc come into play. put that head onto a body, into a real world, and ask for everything to be lit and shaded properly together, interacting and all. this is in the end just cube...

loading...... it's big

ban him. statement of a neutral swiss person. because, he's not polite in his tone and typically just trolling.

the watch slowly rotating at the end with all the diamonds in the sky (*singing lucy in the skyyyyhh ...*), the watch does not seem to have the diamonds in it's reflection. maybe i saw that wrong?

Do you evaluate the distance of the ray, and attentuate?
Do you measure the hit angle of the ray, and attentuate?

He wants to write math-formula-stuff right into his texteditor, right into the code.

Why ever..

I know. It would just be nice.. Pluggable CPUs like on multi-cpu mainboards.

But yes, it'll be interesting, no matter how it works out exactly. Advancing the industry is always good.