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In fact, Apple once did a version of Aqua that did an overengineered materials-based rasterization at runtime, including a physically correct glass effect.

It was too slow and was later optimized away to run off of pre-rendered assets with some light typical style engine procedural code.

Feels like someone just dusted off the old vision now that the compute is there.




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