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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

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218 points ahamez | 1 comments | 13 Jan 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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losvedir ◴[17 Jan 25 02:12 UTC] No.42733337[source]▶
All right, off topic but I've seen this a bunch lately and the term just really irritates my brain for some reason. What's its origin? "[adverb] based" just feels so wrong to me. Shouldn't that be a noun: "Evidence-based medicine", "values-based", "faith-based", etc. Does "physically based" bother anyone else?
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curiousObject ◴[17 Jan 25 12:14 UTC] No.42736725[source]▶
But what alternative can you suggest which doesn’t break grammar or usage precedents like “physically based”?

Physics-based? Reality-based? Physically-derived?

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1. roelschroeven ◴[17 Jan 25 16:43 UTC] No.42740000[source]▶
Physics-based sounds perfectly fine to me.

"X-based" to me is equivalent with "based on X". Physics-based = based on physics, evidence-based = based on evidence, values-based = based on values; all perfectly fine.

Physically based feels correct in a sentence like "Our company is physically based in New York but we operate world-wide". But what does the "physically based" in "physically based rendering" mean?

But I'm not a native speaker, what do I know.