Well we launched our radiosity algorithm on the world at 9am this morning. It is eight hours later and our poor little web server has spewed 6.23GB to the world. We’ve already had people a) not believing us and b) thinking we’re using a popular algorithm (PRT) which we aren’t. For anyone reading this (and suprisingly the biggest referrer to our site is my blog!) here are some FAQ answers.
- Does it handle dynamic geometry?
- Not yet but this isn’t forced by the algorithm, just our implementation.
- Is it real?
- In that we just hand the model to our precompute + renderer yes. No tricks, all the stuff you see in the video is real in that it wasn’t authored.
- How long is the precompute?
- It depends on the scene, for the scene in the movie for a HQ precompute one would get some pocket change out of half-an-hour.