14th September 2010, 1:03 PM
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Wow... Sure, it doesn't look as good as this same game using "normal" methods, but this is intended as a proof of concept. It won't be something that can be done right now, they're using 4 servers linked together, but think of 5 years from now and we may see GPU/CPU combo chips that can do this themselves, stacking up with other rendering tricks as people learn how to properly make use of this method. The point is just how amazing what it does can do it. I'm in awe over those reflections, but really that's EXACTLY the only way that surface CAN respond to light reflection, which is all ray-tracing is. It's also extremely processor intensive, hence why it's taken so long to get to this point.
Wow... Sure, it doesn't look as good as this same game using "normal" methods, but this is intended as a proof of concept. It won't be something that can be done right now, they're using 4 servers linked together, but think of 5 years from now and we may see GPU/CPU combo chips that can do this themselves, stacking up with other rendering tricks as people learn how to properly make use of this method. The point is just how amazing what it does can do it. I'm in awe over those reflections, but really that's EXACTLY the only way that surface CAN respond to light reflection, which is all ray-tracing is. It's also extremely processor intensive, hence why it's taken so long to get to this point.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)