http://anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidi...x-980-review/4
Finally, well close out our look at VXGI with a preview of NVIDIAs GTX 900 series tech demo, which is a rendered recreation of a photo/scene involving Buzz Aldrin and the Apollo 11 moon landing. T
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/18/N...-moon-landing/
Mark Daly, NVIDIA's senior director of content development told Engadget its Apollo 11 demo was created as an answer to Sponza -- a popular global illumination model frequently used in by the academic crowd. It's a good model, he says, but it's not very interesting to watch. "Jen-Hsun [Huang], our CEO, looked at it and said 'Isn't there something better?' Anyway, one of our research engineers happened to put this slide up of Buzz Aldrin on the moon in a meeting and said 'this speaks global illumination to me because of all the hoaxers and deniers of the moon landing." Conspiracy theorists say that Aldrin simply couldn't have been lit up the way he is in the picture. NVIDIA took it as a challenge.