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by corysama 3363 days ago
Ray tracing and rasterization are pretty much duals of each other. Enough effort put into one can achieve very similar results to the other.

Meanwhile, I don't know how much effort would be required to effectively rasterize a beach with individually modeled grains of sand. https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-tech-of-pixar-part-1-pi...