- "mom can we get a RAYTRACER?"
- "we already have a raytracer at home"
raytracer at home :
@Pulsaare "mooom, how do we make this raytracer??" "Just follow the instructions, it's easy!"
The instructions: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/visual05/povray/shapes.pov
@Nine lmfao azjkdl
@Pulsaare god i remember when POVray was on like some old floppy disc on the cover of a PC magazine back in like 91 or something and my dad tried it on his brand spanking new intel 486-DX running at a blistering 100mhz (allegedly, until the motherboard crapped out and decided it wouldn't even boot unless we downclocked it to 75mhz), and rendering the simple example scene of three reflective, translucent spheres on an infinite checkerboard floor took like... a day and a half to render.
@Nine i'm still amazed at how now computers can do this in less than a second
@Pulsaare RIGHT?! It blows my friggin mind that we have graphics cards now which do this ON CHIP as well, like, they have dedicated chipsets purely to do on the fly, real time raytracing that nearly four decades ago would take literally days to do ONE SCENE.
@Pulsaare (that's not hyperbole either we literally set it running one night after I was home from school to see what happened, and we thought the damn thing had crashed, because all we saw was a black screen for several moments. then we saw pixels starting to appear... veeery slowly. We left it going all night. It was... halfway done when we woke up. by the time my little brother and I got back from school it apparently STILL hadn't finished, and my dad decided to just hard-reset the pc lol)