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 # Overview
 
-Psychopath is a path tracer, aimed at rendering animations and VFX for
-film.  It is currently still in an early prototyping stage of development.
+Psychopath is a path tracing 3d renderer.  You can read about its development
+at [psychopath.io](http://psychopath.io).
 
-This project is mostly for fun, but I do hope it eventually becomes useful.
-That "for-fun" disclaimer aside, the long-term goals of Psychopath are to
-support efficient global illumination rendering of scenes that are
-significantly larger than available RAM and/or that contain procedural elements
-that need to be generated on-the-fly during rendering.
+This project is mostly just for me to have fun, learn, and play with ideas in
+3d rendering.  I do have vague hopes that it will eventually be useful for real
+things, but that's not a hard goal.
 
-The approach that Psychopath takes to enable this is to try to access the scene
-data in as coherent a fashion as possible via breadth-first ray tracing,
-allowing the cost of HDD access, expensive procedurals, etc. to be amortized
-over large batches of rays.
-
-Psychopath used to be written in C++ but is now written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org).
-The curious can take a look at the old C++ code-base [here](https://github.com/cessen/psychopath_cpp).
-
-I occasionally blog about Psychopath's development at [psychopath.io](http://psychopath.io).
+Unlike many for-fun 3d rendering projects, Psychopath is being designed with
+production rendering in mind.  I think that architecting a renderer to
+efficiently handle very large data sets, complex shading, motion blur, color
+management, etc. presents a much richer and more challenging problem space to
+explore than just writing a basic path tracer.
 
 ## Building
-Building Psychopath is mostly straightforward except for its OpenEXR dependency.
+Psychopath is written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org), and is pretty
+straightforward to build except for its OpenEXR dependency.
 
 If you have OpenEXR 2.2 installed on your system such that pkg-config can find
 it, then as long as you have Rust (including Cargo) and a C++ compiler
-installed, you should be able to build with this command at the repository
-root:
+installed, you should be able to build Psychopath with this command at the
+repository root:
 
 ```
 cargo build --release
@@ -42,36 +37,18 @@ the same simple cargo command above.
 If you have any difficulties, please feel free to file an issue and I'll try to
 help out as I have time!
 
-## Current Features
-- Geometry:
-  - Triangle meshes (both flat and smooth shading)
-- Lights:
-  - Spherical light sources
-  - Rectangular light sources
-  - Distant disc light sources (a.k.a. sun lights)
-- Motion blur:
-  - Camera motion blur
-  - Deformation motion blur
-  - Transform motion blur
-- Focal blur / DoF
-- Spectral rendering (via monte carlo sampling)
-- Full hierarchical instancing
-- Light Tree sampling for efficient handling of large numbers of lights. (See [this thread](http://ompf2.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1938) for an overview of the technique.)
-- Shading:
-  - A simple material system that supports single-color Lambert and GTR BRDFs assigned per-instance.
-
 # PsychoBlend
 
-Included in the repository is an addon for [Blender](http://www.blender.org)
+Included in the repository is an add-on for [Blender](http://www.blender.org)
 called "PsychoBlend" that lets you use Psychopath for rendering in Blender.
 However, most Blender features are not yet supported because Psychopath itself
 doesn't support them yet.
 
-If you have any trouble getting the addon working, please feel free to file an
+If you have any trouble getting the add-on working, please feel free to file an
 issue and I'll try to troubleshoot/fix it as I have time!
 
 ## Features Supported
-- Meshes (rendered as flat-shaded triangle meshes)
+- Polygon meshes.
 - Point, area, and sun lamps (exported as sphere, rectangle, and distant disc lights, respectively)
 - Simple materials assigned per-object.
 - Focal blur / DoF
@@ -82,9 +59,7 @@ issue and I'll try to troubleshoot/fix it as I have time!
 # Contributing
 
 I'm not looking for contributions right now, and I'm likely to reject pull
-requests.  This is currently a solo project and I like it that way.  Eventually
-when things become less playful/experimental I will likely want to start
-collaborating, but that's quite a ways off.
+requests.  This is currently a solo project and I like it that way.
 
 However, I _do_ want people to be able to play with Psychopath, so if you have
 trouble getting it to build/run please file an issue!  And if you want to fork