Understanding Rembrandt: Difference between revisions

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  Wrong, Rembrandt is not doing shadows at night time:  
  Wrong, Rembrandt is not doing shadows at night time:  
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The conceptual beauty of shadows in Rembrandt is that they're not faked, there's actually a physics computation going on where light in the scene reaches and where it doesn't. The downside is that unless there's a huge amount of filtering going on, that computation is suffering from numerical accuracy so much that it flickers all over the place.
The conceptual beauty of shadows in Rembrandt is that they're not faked, there's actually a physics computation going on where light in the scene reaches and where it doesn't. The downside is that unless there's a huge amount of filtering going on, that computation is suffering from numerical accuracy so much that it flickers all over the place.