[Ray-devel] Robots

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I've just seen the film "Robots" (Blue sky studios), was really impressed with
the graphics.  Notably, a number of the shots had effects that clearly couldn't
have been done without ray tracing...  Here is a page about their rendering
software:

http://www.blueskystudios.com/content/process-tools.php

It turns out that the entire movie was actually ray traced!  Another interesting
point, they trace curved patches (even subdivision surfaces) without
tesselation.  I'd be really interested to know how they have been able to do
this efficiently.  Of course they also have a renderfarm with 500+ machines :)

Andrew

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