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Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by nextaccountic » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

cropcirclbureau wrote: post #10

nextaccountic wrote: post #8

So, this is realtime, right? How hard would be integrating it with Bevy?

Someone already did in the Discord.

In the Bevy discord? Is it on Github?

Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by nslocum » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 6:18 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #11

This looks cool. A video demo would be nice.

I think this is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXRiP6XQdo

The one embedded in the presentation didn't work for me.

Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by lights0123 » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #15

cropcirclbureau wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone already did in the Discord.

In the Bevy discord? Is it on Github?

The message is https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823..., and you can see the video demo at https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/692648638823923732/92.... They say:

> I'm working on cleaning up the plugin I hope to put something out there this week

Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by psyc » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM UTC

gmueckl wrote: post #12

Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?

I wondered the same thing. He’s still alive and working. Not even mentioned in the acknowledgment section. Besides, it’s a terribly ambitious name for a real-time GI solution. It’d make some sense for an unbiased path tracer.

Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by dls2016 » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 7:26 PM UTC

gmueckl wrote: post #12

Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?

For anyone out of the loop, his paper "The Rendering Equation" is very readable.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63....

Re: Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer

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Post by cardiffspaceman » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 7:33 PM UTC

gmueckl wrote: post #12

Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?

Good idea. One prominent precedent: Haskell Curry's widow was asked about using the name Haskell [1]:

> * Hudak and Wise were asked to write to Curry’s widow, Virginia Curry, to ask if she would mind our naming the language after her husband. *

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...