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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nothing about 3D animation is ideal. It's all about reasonable approximations. Needing to build better GPUs to support tracing individual photons is insane when you could just slightly increase ambient lighting in the area of a light source.