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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

It's a hardware intensive process that tries to make lighting as realistic as possible. So, which areas are illuminated, which are in shadow. From an artistic perspective, this is very important to how a user visually processes any particular image.

No, not really. Just better graphics.