an ineresting mailinglist i must say. when do we start posting something serious?...
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Daniel Papp
faqtori@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 9, 1999 8:54 pm
woop.. - Factory...
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Dan Nilsson
zyrax@xxxx.xxx
Oct 21, 1999 4:57 pm
Blehe bluhu blablaBLAbla BLA-HA, blaHA, BLA HA! -blabliblubla -blebbiliblubbeliblaHABLAHA...
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Dan Nilsson
zyrax@xxxx.xxx
Oct 21, 1999 5:00 pm
[Attachments have been removed from this message] ?...
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Cesare Castiglia
c.castiglia@xxxxxxxx....
Oct 21, 1999 5:16 pm
Jo... ... Wow, it seems that this list works :D BTW: I', wondering why I read it, since I am a musician :D bye DiXan...
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Marco *PaN!* Foco
pan@xxxx.xxx.xxx.xxxx...
Oct 21, 1999 9:55 pm
... You're no longer a musician... you're a coder now... -- *PaN!*...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 9:39 am
Hi Pan, hi everybody. Well, this list is supposed to be a bit serious, so first we start talking about algorithms and then maybe the chat... For Zyrax,...
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Sastre, Angel
ASastre@xx.xxxx
Oct 22, 1999 9:40 am
... I used barycentric coords some time ago, although it proved a bit too slow to have more than 100 tris on a middle-range p2. If anyone knows of a better,...
... sent ... The point was, that i did not try to attach something, that was why i got confused :) The message dissappeared when i sent the email as plain text...
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Cesare Castiglia
c.castiglia@xxxxxxxx....
Oct 22, 1999 7:28 pm
Jo... ... how ... It has been a rumor born from their infofiles (which are mostly joke stuff). As far as I know, Jarno's engine was a real raytracer, which can...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 23, 1999 10:13 am
... With/without reflections/shadows? With/without spatial partitioning? ... Hmm, actually they look very good and fast but dont really do much. The...
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Sastre, Angel
ASastre@xx.xxxx
Oct 25, 1999 12:03 pm
... yup, that's what I thought. these crazy eastern-europeans... :-) ... you're right, supersampling is something else. it's for example rendering at 800*600...
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Sastre, Angel
ASastre@xx.xxxx
Oct 25, 1999 12:07 pm
... no shadows or reflections, no spatial partitioning. I could render about 50 triangles on a p166. so...that would be like 100 tris on a decent p2. I ...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 25, 1999 3:01 pm
... I guess what we're talking about is "quadtrees", or? They're ooold stuff, even reported on Foley :-) But good anyway for intros... Piero Foscari aka ...
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Daniel Papp
faqtori@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 25, 1999 8:32 pm
... Well CGPNP defines supersampling as 'The approach of taking more than one sample per pixel and combining them..' (pg620). So just think of a block in rtrt...
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Cesare Castiglia
c.castiglia@xxxxxxxx....
Oct 25, 1999 4:34 pm
Jo... ... intros... Yep... But how can you feature Hi-res reflections or shadows (for istance on a plane) if you basically trace just a couple of point there...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 26, 1999 8:28 am
... Hmm, quite good... but with some acceleration for the 1st hit or you could reach half speed with say shadows? ... hehe, ok, i'll come again on this when...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 26, 1999 8:51 am
... Just have a finer subdivision on areas involving reflections and shadows? :-) They're be only part of the screen normally hehe.... Anyway a better idea...
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Daniel Papp
faqtori@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 26, 1999 8:16 pm
... Well there is a technique of doing a blur on the pixels depending on the distance from the camera, which produces crap results, but this is realtime ...
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Eric Haines
ehaines1@xxxxx.xx.xxxx
Oct 27, 1999 1:09 pm
... Well, they already are doing reflections off of flat surfaces, that's an old trick, a simple demo is at http://www.egerter.com/index3.htm under Rotating...
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Sastre, Angel
ASastre@xx.xxxx
Oct 26, 1999 8:27 am
... squared by statix does it, although not with raytracing I don't think. in the scene with the columns going up and down....
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Cesare Castiglia
c.castiglia@xxxxxxxx....
Oct 26, 1999 9:49 am
Jo... ... Sure... but you slow down as hell. Gamma2 features fast reflections even in 800x600, so it MUST interpolate :D bye DiXan...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 28, 1999 4:18 pm
... hehe yeah... but what do you do on object edges this way? :-) ... hehehe they're doing caustics already damn! reflections will come out soon too, 3 months,...
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Piero Foscari
wally@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 28, 1999 4:37 pm
... Ehe, i guess all intelligent raytracers dont completely raytrace atleast for the first hit... (i.e. can Maxxon's be considered a raytracer?). A game can...
