as still nobody posted a link to this, here's some impressive demoscene ray tracing from revision 2013:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=61211
5 faces / FLT
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Re: 5 faces / FLT
Beautiful demo!
The author's writeup about making it is available here: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2013 ... y-tracing/
The author's writeup about making it is available here: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2013 ... y-tracing/
Re: 5 faces / FLT
and part II is up, too: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2013 ... ng-part-2/
as usual, smash just demonstrates how one does things right..
as usual, smash just demonstrates how one does things right..

Re: 5 faces / FLT
Cool. From his writeup it sounds like only secondary rays were traced, using a two-level brick map. I was really impressed when his triangles started deforming, flowing, shattering, etc. 
