GFX video re. Ray Tracing and de-noising -- guaranteed "Aha! I get it!" moment

[Darren Dirt]

Computer Graphics POLYGONS: How Do They Work?

Up until watching this, I thought I kinda got it.
I was wrong. The walk through history in this video, and the examples shown, including talking about NVidia's "hybrid" technology (Raster plus Ray or even Path Tracing) definitely brought me to "Aha!" point a couple of times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrF4k6wJ-do
"Beyond Turing - Ray Tracing and the Future of Computer Graphics"

[Darren Dirt]

OR, just pre-render a ton of photo-realistic pieces?

"UNREAL ENGINE 4 - Photorealistic Graphic (2019)"

https://youtu.be/zKu1Y-LlfNQ

[Mr. Analog]

OR, just pre-render a ton of photo-realistic pieces?

"UNREAL ENGINE 4 - Photorealistic Graphic (2019)"

https://youtu.be/zKu1Y-LlfNQ

Nice!