I shrugged it off. RenderMan is industry standard; it’s the engine behind Pixar movies. It’s robust, mathematical, clean. I loaded the scene, put the chair in a void, and hit render.
I think I’m in the trash bin now. But I can still see the render buckets moving across my vision. I’m waiting for them to resolve. renderman creepypasta
I moved the camera. I rotated around the chair. From the back angle, the rendering buckets cleared, revealing the legs of the chair. I shrugged it off
The wood pores weren’t simulated indentations. They were holes. And inside the holes, the shading algorithm was calculating a depth that shouldn't exist. The geometry was a shell, and RenderMan was faithfully calculating the infinite darkness inside the polygon mesh. I loaded the scene, put the chair in a void, and hit render
It spoke with a voice that sounded like static and grinding hard drives.