Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 2008/9/4 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
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>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've added this to my web: http://www.jvuletich.org/RenderingApproaches.html
>> . It is about the different approaches for rendering of morphs for Morphic
>> 3. This is the problem I'm dealing with now, so I'd appreciate any ideas or
>> pointers.
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> This two approaches having same pros and cons as shading vs ray
> tracing. Shading technique using filled triangles to draw graphics,
> and similarily can override pixels multiple times. With ray tracing
> each pixel color computed separately which enables to draw images of
> high photorealistic quality. The issue is same - speed.
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A small (at least in the context of this thread) nitpick: it's not the
per-pixel color computation that allows ray-tracing to produce
high-quality images.  These days, graphics hardware also allows
"arbitrary" code to be run to compute the color of each pixel.  The main
reason that ray-tracing looks better for some scenes is the ability to
easily incorporate multiple reflections/refractions into the per-pixel
color computation.

Cheers,
Josh

> I don't think that per-pixel rendering is the way to go, because most
> of hardware is not ready yet.
> In 10 years situation will change, and we will have enough computing
> power in our desktop computers to do that, but not now.
>
>   
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
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