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Anon turns on raytracing (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Early 3D graphic rendering was all ray-tracing, but when video games started doing textured surfaces the developers quickly realised they could just fake it with alpha as long as the light sources were static.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Unless you consider wireframe graphics. Idk when triangle rasterization first started being used, but it's more conceptually similar to wireframe graphics the ray tracing. Also, I don't really know what you mean by 'fake it with alpha'.