Tuesday, April 21, 2009

[rtnnihzh] Fun with Ray Tracing

One popular imagination of the future is "The Future Is Shiny". Create a film of such a future. Let there be shiny clothing and lots of reflective interior and exterior surfaces.

The challenge is of course these shiny surfaces will show lots stuff off the set, including for example the camera. The special effects will have to be ray traced. It could be an animated film -- a very computationally expensive fully ray traced film.

Animation is one solution, though the animators must create a fully immersive detailed world. Render at an incredible high resolution so that the home viewer may do a "Blade Runner" style zoom and video analysis of reflections of a scene to uncover interesting other things going on in the background.

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