Monthly Archives: June 2013

pass the time by tracing rays

Posted on Sunday, 2013 June 23 by Anton

I had assumed that Pixar did not use ray-tracing because it could not provide certain desired lighting effects. Now Dad tells me that Monsters University is Pixar’s first ray-traced feature, which implies that the speed wasn’t available until now.

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To your rearranged bodies go

Posted on Saturday, 2013 June 15 by Anton

I’m re-reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go and, of course, pondering the arrangements. The premise is that all humans who ever died (for some convenient definitions of ‘human’ and ‘ever’) are simultaneously resurrected (for purposes unknown to them) on an … Continue reading →

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