In article <3b177d03@news.povray.org> , "Nekar Xenos" 
<j-p### [at] citywalkcoza> wrote:

> Another dumb question. With all this talk about scanline rendering, I have
> difficulty visualising how it differs from raytracing. Could someone maybe
> draw me up a diagram to show the difference? Maybe a side view of a sphere and
> how the  ray is reflected,etc.

Look at any 3D video game.  They all use (hardware accelerated of course)
scanline rendering of some sort.

     Thorsten

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