WebGL Path Tracing

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/

Not sure if it's been posted here already, but what the hell. It's awesome :D

This is very awesome. Definitely usable for point and click adventures with a transition fade screen to cover the render.

I'm not sure, but perhaps you did not understand purpose of that ;)

Woah, that is amazing.

Looks as good as 3DMax renders on the highest settings, in (close to) real-time on the web.

Nice.

Jayjay you are really missing the point xD

Heh, I know that the point is to show how nice path tracing looks and how amazing it is that WebGL does it at all, I'm just saying that while also being awesome, even with the current render times you can make games with static scenes where the speed doesn't matter.

Jayjay, I feel like the rendering time is being artificially lowered so that we can see WebGL working away on making the scene look cooler.

If it ran uncapped, we wouldn't see the static at all.

Fimbul, ah I see. I was assuming it was as intensive as ray-tracing so I didn't think it could be deliberate slow-down.

Reminded me of old DOS games that you could watch draw the screen

The "noise/grain" is intrinsic to Path Tracing. The way it works also means its really great for static images, for print (as an example), but it's non-usable for realtime graphics like a game (too taxing for the GPU, and furthermore, the image is never 'finished').