"Ray-tracing would not overtake rasterization" -Ku

[JF_Aidan_Pryde]

It's not exactly new but what do you guys make of this?

Kurt Akeley said that ray-tracing would not overtake rasterizers in his lifetime. looked at other claims: Volume Rendering will overtake geometry (Jim Kajiya, 1991), and IBR will replace 3D rendering. What happens it that the raster/texel engine adapts to absorb those techniques. Half of the NV30 is occupied with the depth buffer and the texture sampling to achieve that.

http://www.siggraph.org/conferences/reports/s2002/tech/panels1.html

 

[Reverend]

Lots of things in 3D will not happen in my lifetime as well because of the dependency on process technology

 

[JF_Aidan_Pryde]

I'm sure you'll outlive Moore's Law Rev. Or rather, you better!