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		gosub on March 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Problem With Photorealism You could lazily evaluate the universe and save some cpu power.

matt_kantor on March 18, 2014 [–]

Isn't that only true if you assume locality?

chongli on March 18, 2014 | [–]

And that's basically what we do already. When we throw global illumination and global fluid dynamics into the mix we quickly run up against the limitations of our machines.

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