POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Feature Requests - Normal Map and Displacement Map Support: Re: Feature Requests

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 24 Oct 2006 18:15:46
Message: <453e9092@news.povray.org>

Warp wrote:
>   Some scanline renderers support subdivision&displacement of the mesh
> on the fly, while rendering.

Yes, that method is called geometry caching for ray-tracing (as I
mentioned). Just google for "geometry caching", and you get the research
papers that describe it.

	Thorsten

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