Doug_S. comments on Feynman Paths - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 April 2008 06:32AM

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Comment author: Doug_S. 17 April 2008 07:25:06PM 0 points [-]

On the subject of 3D rendering:

Treating light as a classical wave can also produce pretty good experimental results on the scale of everyday life. Ray tracing algorithms ignore the properties light shares with classical waves, such as diffraction. I suspect that you don't need "quantum amplitude tracing" algorithm for more accurate 3D rendering, just a "classical wave tracing" algorithm. (Ordinary ray tracing is already rather computationally expensive anyway...)