POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Radiosity : Re: Radiosity Server Time
6 Aug 2024 04:23:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity  
From: Timothy R  Cook
Date: 18 May 2002 21:46:35
Message: <3CE703F7.F1657A03@bellsouth.net>
Christopher James Huff wrote:
> This would be slow...very, very slow. Maybe not too slow, though...it
> might be similar to media and radiosity when they were introduced. It
> would also be difficult to do right...you have media affecting radiosity,
> and radiosity affecting media, so you have media affecting itself...and
> you have to have some way of telling POV when it matters enough to
> bother, just turning it on all the time would slow down existing scenes
> that don't need it. Not something that is likely to get into POV 3.5.

But maybe 4? ;)

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
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