Re: Misc: Applications of small floating point formats.

On 8/3/2024 2:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 03:01:16 -0500, BGB wrote:
 

On 8/3/2024 12:32 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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But, what I am saying is, a lot of stuff doesn't need raytracing.

 Like I said, there are non-raytraced renderers inspired by video-game
engines. They don’t use OpenGL.

They are becoming few and far between wrt the big titles, so to speak. DirectX 12 and Vulkan. Programming for DirectX 12 can be a bitch. I am still learning about it. I can get programs running on my Xbox which is fun, but its more complicated than say, Modern OpenGL.

And it does take extra tricks (e.g.
things called “light probes”) to get realistic-looking lighting with
them.

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