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by ska 2506 days ago
That's true but 2nd order effect. The global illumination folks 20 years ago were still ahead of todays AAA titles in terms of "depths" in the above context. And the big bang-for-buck on the modern visuals is more modeling and model complexity, art budget. Sure there are a bunch of engineers working around hardware limitations etc, and there are some clever things being developed, but that's not where the the big shift lies, imo.