Cycles Requests

[MetinSeven]

Hi George,

Here’s an informative post about this subject by @lukasstockner97, one of the Cycles developers:

Specular Manifold Sampling for Cycles Caustics and Speed

Guys, relax a bit I think like 15 different people sent me links to this video over the last two days. While it definitely is an interesting paper, I think the video is waay too optimistic and uncritical. Yes, from a research standpoint this is a great algorithm. But reading through the threads about it, everyone seems to think that it is the holy grail of rendering that will give you perfect images within seconds and magically solve everything that is wrong with renderers. That…