OGL acceleration question - RE: +++ Slower Rendering in XSI 4.0 +++ 2004-06-08 - By kim aldis
Back
in the past 25 years, I've seen my frame times go from around 20 minutes
per frame to, well, around 20 minutes per frame. We just want more.
Something Loren Carpenter said a good few years ago was that he felt render
times were limited rather more by any given person's attention span than by
the power of the hardware and I think that still stands up. Maybe the time
will come but I rather doubt it.
Carpenter also has an interesting story about his first presentation of the
ray tracing work he was doing way back when - he was one of the original
developers of ray tracing for image synthesis. He was presenting to
management at, I think, IBM, who were wowed. So much so that one of them
asked what he'd need to do it in real time - remember, this was some 20
years ago. Carpenter thought for a moment, then said, "I'd like a helicopter
and 768*576 Crays in a field with a red, green and blue lightbulb on the top
of each one".
Respect.
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> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Sylvain Moreau
> Sent: 08 June 2004 16:01
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: OGL acceleration question - RE: +++ Slower
> Rendering in XSI 4.0 +++
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> motherboards and the concept of Render Farm disappears in the
> daily business of film/video production?
>
> I bet on 10 years
>
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