FVerbaas posted at 4:33 AM Sat, 4 March 2023 - #4457574

Firefly has its strong points: microfacet displacement is a lot easier in the fake 'artificial' techniques FF is based on, but notoriously fidgety in the physics based processes of SF.

There's nothing fake about Firefly render time Micropolygonal Dicing. The Reyes method produces a quad that is approximately 1/2 a pixel on a side. Now imagine the level of real time subdivision required by Poser Superfly for a comparable result. Not bashing Superfly here, just clarifying Firefly Micropolygonal Dicing

The Siggraph original paper on the Reyes renderer that's built into Poser (Cook/Carpenter/Catmull)...

The Reyes Image Rendering Architecture