Competing with Reality? ART VPS is pioneering advancements in ray-traced and High Dynamic Range Imaging through its PURE rendering card and RenderDrive workstation

摘要

What do you understand by the term photorealistic? Perhaps you take it to mean 'as real as a photograph', that the thing in question looks as real as it gets (the camera apparently never lies, after all). So how do you differentiate between last year's photorealistic rendering and what you see before you this year - with the latest techniques and capabilities considerably enhanced? How can you improve on photorealism? It's fascinating to see the computer industry constantly expanding your conception of what is attainable. For example you may have thought that the quality of ink-jet printing couldn't really improve on the current state of the art -yet it always does. And the same is true of rendering. Just when you think that rendered imagery has got as real as its going to get in terms of clarity, depth of field, colour and so on, then somebody announces improvements.