Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!lysator.liu.se!zap From: zap@lysator.liu.se (Zap Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Realtime Raytracing demo on a PC... Anybody wanna see? Keywords: Raytracing, Shading, Realtime Message-ID: <486@lysator.liu.se> Date: 16 Jan 91 11:45:11 GMT References: <1991Jan8.072628.13689@tukki.jyu.fi> <5359@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden Lines: 49 markv@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering) writes: >>In <1991Jan8.072628.13689@tukki.jyu.fi> ap@tukki.jyu.fi (Patric Aalto) writes: >>>Hi! >>>I just finished a small demo I have been working on a couple of months. [1 Gigabit bla bla deleted] >Please, don't call it raytracing if it isn't raytracing. I agree. Norty you ;-) But it has nothing waz-zu-ever to do with my good friend, Ray. BTW, I have some "demos" that I've made that are "real time" of TRUE raytracing! I.e. compressed animation files that took hours and hours to render, but replays in realtime... should I call THAT real time raytracing for the PC ;-) ? Well, it LOOKS ;-) (coz it IS) like raytracing... and it shows in REALTIME. So now I've invented Real-Time raytracing Q.E.D.? Nah.... dont think so.... problem is, do YOU? ;-) >It sounds like this demo does some highly optimized phong shading, which is >nice, cute, interesting, but it AIN'T RAYTRACING. Oh Mark, my dear friend, do you have to YELL at the poor guy ;-) >We have enough muddled terminology (like distributed raytracing) without >calling everything that renders a raytracer. It just ain't so. >Mark Yeah, rite. >Mark VandeWettering >markv@acm.princeton.edu P.S. My Animations will appear ftp-able realsoonnow with the help of a friend from finland... I just got tons o' work to doy right now and havn't been able to send him disks. P.P.S.S. My anims won 2:nd price in the magazine 'Cadalyst' competition 'Annual Image Award Whatever' last summer, and they were just bits and pieces of demo renderings.... I'll enter something with a story this year ;-) /Z -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * My signature is smaller than * * yours! - zap@lysator.liu.se * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *