POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Media Speedup Question : Re: Media Speedup Question Server Time
8 Jul 2024 17:47:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media Speedup Question  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 23 Nov 2001 04:18:00
Message: <3bfe1448@news.povray.org>
In article <MPG.16682a183e0047499896bf@news.povray.org> , Lutz-Peter Hooge
<lpv### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> Why is this not possible with POV? Ok, I know that it wouldn't work with
> things like noise3d, granite etc, but for an athmospheric media with only
> a spherical or gradient density....?

Lets just say "all patterns are created equal" *.  Anything else would
introduce an enormous amount of overhead in code.

    Thorsten

* Not entirely true, but very close.

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