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  Re: My own raytracer, need some docs...  
From: ryan constantine
Date: 17 Aug 2000 20:37:51
Message: <399C8550.E87B1A27@yahoo.com>
i think the 'graphics gems' series covers all kinds of graphics
including raytracing.

Simon Lemieux wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I've played with povray for a long time now and I realize that it's not
> optimized for the kind of render I'm doing...  I mean povray takes forever to
> parse a few millions of cylinders that have the same texture...  Yes, I know a
> few Millions is a very huge number and should simply require more memory, but
> povray crashed after filling my 128M of RAM and my 256M of swap...
> 
> Here I go...  I would like to make my own raytracer, not based on any point of
> povray...  and optimize it for my own work...  but I never tried to make one and
> I'm entering college for the first year this september,  what I was looking for
> by posting this news is a list of books I should read in order to have a better
> knowledge of this subject...  I prefer book over URL-documentation (unless
> there's a .ps or .pdf i can print...)...
> 
> I already got a hand on Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (Foley,
> vanDam), but then, I would need some more!
> 
> Thanks a lot,
>         Simon
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