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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 28 Nov 2003 11:28:29
Message: <3fc777ad$1@news.povray.org>

In article <cja### [at] netplexaussieorg> , 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>  wrote:

>> http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/488/fall2k3.hw4.html
>
> Hmm...some apparent misconceptions. Radiosity is a lighting algorithm,
> not a rendering algorithm, and POV-Ray *always* raytraces. With POV, you
> can raytrace a scene with conventional lighting or monte-carlo radiosity
> (which itself uses raytracing to take the radiosity samples), but you
> usually use radiosity to complement ordinary lighting.

Indeed, this sounds very much like the person who gave the assignment did
not read the POV-Ray user manual.  Oh well...

    Thorsten

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