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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One Response to pass the time by tracing rays

  1. Anton says:
    Sunday, 2013 August 25 at 22:54

    I imagine Pixar preserves the code from which its past movies were made. If ray-tracing gets cheap enough, I hope they’ll all be reshot, frame for frame.

    How faithful a remake can be is an interesting question. What effects would be spoiled by ray-tracing? You’d see the camera every time you look at a shiny surface.

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