On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 09:55:36 UTC, Matt Taylor wrote:
For some reason sledgehammers and nuts come to mind! :-)
Monte Carlo based sampling is of course a sledge hammer, but it works well with nuts if you don't mind the noise!
Arauna / Brigade is pretty cool mind you. My company makes a mental ray compatible pseudo real-time visualizer. We use Intel's Embree for our ray intersection. It's CPU only, but very fast - and faster still if you couple it with ISPC.
That's great! And thanks for the info, I didn't know about Embree and ISPC.
(So Intel has a LLVM based compiler for SSE... :^)
