Interesting footage

[jbikker]

Some images of this video popped up, then it was private, but I found a working version:

http://videosift.com/video/Beautiful-re ... loadcomm=1

Any idea what is going on in this video?

[stalker]

https://www.facebook.com/icenhancer

Same guy who made the very famous GTA mods.
He claims to work for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTOY

[stalker]

Wiki claims that OTOY has something to do with Brigade?

[chriso]

I would hazard a guess at simple raytraced reflection / refraction / single shadow ray per light source. Bloom and 'DoF' as a post-process. Seemingly nothing that would introduce variance (true DoF, glossy metal etc.). Still looks reasonable if it is real-time 1080p, just probably not real-world photorealistic.

It looks like the guy that put the original video up was involved with game mods that involve putting shiny cars in to games.

[straaljager]

@Jacco, you'll learn all the details behind this video next week

hint: read the text under 'About me' on the creator's website

[jbikker]

Ah I feel silly now. OTOY is a company I heard good things about.

[toshiya]

I thought it is this one:
http://www.rigidgems.sakura.ne.jp/

[davepermen]

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?

[toxie]

judging from the demo and the rendering speed, i'd say that its 90% raster and 10% "clever" ray tracing, i.e. only casting rays into the envmap and the ground plane (some lines of code, so super-fast), -maybe- even something within the gem that was hit to get some of the refraction effects (maybe plain brute-force, after all its just a bunch of triangles per gem) or just some clever fake (human eye is easy to trick when it comes to refraction)..
but still, awesome techdemo!

[sirpalee]

Without the gems reflecting each other, I wouldn't call that ray-tracing... But otherwise it looks very nice.