Photon Mapping

[@eclairesrhapsodos5496]

Wish my Uni have that kind of classes. Really cool that someone teaching such things. Only things they teached in computer graphics are photoshop and basic 3d max, almost everyone be not wanting to study no more cause of even more agonizing ways to model. Btw did you heard of SmallUPBP or CPPM, they probably the best methods so far.

[@applied_it]

No comments on the guy having this class in his bed?

[@us2ra]

My understanding is that they use the rasterized image as source for raytracing in the game engine and use minimal amount of samples (with the 2000 series this minimal amount of samples can be quite high) in a buffer zone before it's previewed and using a method of approximation probably with the help of a neural network to display the image as if it was ray traced with a higher sample count. It feels like an enhanced version of the rasterized image to me rather than a raytraced one. Having everything baked in the game engine also help I suppose.

[@ruridremik5010]

Yeah, yeah. RTX is most realistic. Yeah, yup, yup, absolutely. And there is absolutely no such a thing as photon mapping

[@bolty4102]

Did you make up your own version of reality and believe it as you were writing this comment? Photon mapping has been a thing for 10+ years and so has ray tracing

[@botbeamer]

Really crazy to me that they took so long to answer in the beginning 😂 uni is attended only by rich & spoiled babies

[@BGFutureBG]

Not sure what you're on about.
This is pretty much normal (hence the lack of reaction from the lecturer) here in Germany (where education is free) as well. You have to consider this could be a lecture attended by a few hundred people, so lots of psychological effects can be going on. For instance, you've got introverts who know the answer right away but do not want to stand in the spotlight presenting it, you got people who have said a lot during the lecture already and want others to have a learning experience as well, ...
On top of that, this is an online lecture (likely Corona lockdown related) where it's always hard to perceive the general mood of the room. Do people raise their hands? Do they look like they know? Ever since Corona semesters for me, this has been a huge problem when lecturers don't use meeting features like emotes to ask for answers or if someone knows. People hesitate a lot more just activating their mic and speaking than they would raise a hand in presence.
This has nothing to do with being rich / spoiled the slightest imho

[@botbeamer]

@@BGFutureBG Understandable tbh, it was just funny cause I never went to uni and I would have answered directly