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Blender Adds Raytracing

rastachops writes "Blender, the Open Source 3D modelling tool has recently added Raytracing to its extensive list of features. 'Believe it or not, but Ton has integrated the raytracer from Blender's predecessor, Traces into Blender. He said "the algorithm has been optimized and is now ten times faster. Combine that with a PC that's forty times faster than in the early 1990's and raytracing is almost usable". For a comparison checkout the before and after screenshots.'"

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  1. tsarkon reports the SECRET SLASHDOT FLOWCHART by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Top secret Slashdot document flowchart recreated for your viewing pleasure. This was taken with a micro camera like in the mission impossible movie, but I was dangling over a wet heap of smelly socks and unwashed bodies and they had just passed out from eating frozen pizza, they can't afford the real stuff. I took this picture and digitized it. I narrowly escaped this ordeal and am still mixing Chlorine Bleach and Battery Acid to produce Chlorine gas to get the smell of the Slashdot hovel out of my nose. Unwashed clothing, greasy matter hair, fart saturated furniture at every turn. Open cases of crappy K6 based white-box china-hardware strewn about, half ass 4 wire extra cheesy barely twisted CAT3 wire being used as CAT5 because "it works fine" 400 distributions of Linux lying around messily unboxed and documentation strewn about. The smell of feces was in the air, along with rotting food and marinating sweat from the foul underarms of the Slashdot team. Upon obtaining this evidence I now know more about things are done around here. It is a very interesting process that outlines the depravity of the programming here.
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    1. Re:tsarkon reports the SECRET SLASHDOT FLOWCHART by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Top secret Slashdot document flowchart recreated for your viewing pleasure. This was taken with a micro camera like in the mission impossible movie, but I was dangling over a wet heap of smelly socks and unwashed bodies and they had just passed out from eating frozen pizza, they can't afford the real stuff. I took this picture and digitized it. I narrowly escaped this ordeal and am still mixing Chlorine Bleach and Battery Acid to produce Chlorine gas to get the smell of the Slashdot hovel out of my nose. Unwashed clothing, greasy matter hair, fart saturated furniture at every turn. Open cases of crappy K6 based white-box china-hardware strewn about, half ass 4 wire extra cheesy barely twisted CAT3 wire being used as CAT5 because "it works fine" 400 distributions of Linux lying around messily unboxed and documentation strewn about. The smell of feces was in the air, along with rotting food and marinating sweat from the foul underarms of the Slashdot team. Upon obtaining this evidence I now know more about things are done around here. It is a very interesting process that outlines the depravity of the programming here.
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  2. Bingo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AC adds fp!

    1. Re:Bingo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you do indeed fail it

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  4. Natalie Portman's Hot Grits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There in the woods lies a 20 by 20 foot cinder block room packed with nude Jews and the one and only Natalie Portman stripped to the raw. Above in the ceiling is an opening to a chute. Natalie Portman and the Jews are packed in like rats. Suddenly the chute opens, and in pours tons of steaming hot grits. The grits overflow the Jews. The grits are steaming hot. The Jews are roasting among the hot grits. Soon they are choking, drowning in steaming hot grits. The Jews gasp and gasp but the grits are too powerful. Soon, a room of scalded steamed Jews is silent. Natalie Portman is forever silenced, having experienced the same fate.

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    1. Re:Natalie Portman's Hot Grits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      My god, someone should make the above post into a movie! It'll be Grammy material for sure.

  5. FreshShit.net : Welcome to Freshshit.net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    AnusWM is a clone of the Ancient Gnome Desktop Environment as it was in 2004 before the Linux Desktop Konfederation arrested all the developers and forced them to work on KDE. It is a fork of the Gnome 2.7 tarballs that was found on a 20 year old mirror I found in my Son's basement. This a beta release, as always, if you find a bug either fix it yourself or fuck off back to Kindows 24 on your pussy Athlon 256 machine fucktard.

  6. Moderator is an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What was so Troll-like about that? Offtopic at the very worst.

  7. Re:Blender is getting mature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Is it so
    That I can't say "Please"?

  8. Re:What's the use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Before

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    Clad in white raiment
    But hardly heaven sent
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    Noble intent
    But bullshit

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  10. Re:Much easier way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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