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Blender Adds Raytracing

Posted by michael on from the puree-liquefy-churn dept.

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. Blender on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm a long time user of Blender, and I'm thrilled that they've added raytracing....

    My one beef with Blender, however, is the terrible performance on Linux. It is so poor, I maintain a Windows partition solely for Blender use.

    I know you guys love Linux (and so do I!), but if you plan on using Blender, best to have a Win32 OS lying around somewhere.