I love to plqy games with ambient occlusion only 🙉

One group is stochastic friendly to ray tracing while the other group is more suited to rasterization pipeline. I agree though that over time, stochastic RT approaches will universally be the high end option

I have been coding in C++ for 26 years, but I admit I cannot read what this does 🤨

I'll buy your book

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Just a good balance for performance. Feel free to try larger networks, but tou may need to increase number of features per level of the hashgrid as well

(1) Yes, we mention that as "clustering" for future work
(2) We could have a fixed MLP serving as a decoder, or non-neural function reading stuff stored on geometry with GATE.

Lol, and you need to use the advance lever to move the "film" to the next frame. Perfect for people who want the inconvenience of using film with none of the benefits. I am glad it exists and that I don't have to use it.

You're within the order of magnitude of quarter res still. We can agree

as a hotfix: Try doing some programming with a truly horrible language™️ and/or platform few decades old and suddenly the modern tools will look like a blessing.
For a while at least. YMMV

yes, you cast one more shadow ray, but you may be able to forgo casting the same shadow ray second time for shading when the selected light is the same as initial candidate

I liked the AntTweakBar. Not sure if that's still around