POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Error rendering scattering media : Re: Error rendering scattering media Server Time
5 Aug 2024 14:14:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Error rendering scattering media  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 10 Sep 2002 15:33:11
Message: <3d7e48f7@news.povray.org>
In article <3d7e2d08$1@news.povray.org> , "Timothy R. Cook" 
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

>>>>>The effect looks like some kind of scan line error.
>>>>
>>>>POV-Ray is a ray tracer, not a scanline renderer.  [snip]
>>>
>>>The lad said 'looks like', not 'is'.
>>
>> I suppose that depends on how you interpret the whole sentence, not just two
>> words of it ... you can either interpret as "looks like some kind of scan
>> line" or "looks like some kind of scan line error".  I used the second, you
>> the first interpretation...
>
> Eh...wtf
>
> I interpret it to be 'looks like some kind of error of the type a scan
> line render would produce', which seems to be what he meant.  You are
> seeming to interpret it to be 'looks like an error that only scan line
> renderers produce'.

Well, given that POV-Ray has to do absolutely nothing with a scanline
renderer, there was nothing wrong with pointing this out then.

Anyway, the world will not end because of this, so... :-)

    Thorsten

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