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> how long do you think it would have taken Van Eyck to get the prayer beads this right?

Not the parent poster, but: check out some YouTube videos on realistic painting. A professional artist would probably get them to 90% finished in like an hour or so with some fine tuning later.

It doesn’t have to be perfect raycasting, it just has to be convincing/good enough.



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