Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <410bfd8d@news.povray.org> , Stefan Viljoen
> <rylan@<deletehis>intekom.co.za>  wrote:
> 
>> I have extremely little mathematical background - I asked him and he said
>> he thinks that raytracing (which apparently uses lots of matrices)
> 
> You are mistaken.  We are talking about a few 4*4 matrices while the
> person you talked to is dealing with huge matrices with hundreds of rows
> and
> columns.  While matrices may well be the bottleneck in his application,
> they are not a bottleneck in ray-tracing at all.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
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Oh ok! Thanks Thorsten that's cleared it up for me.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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