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From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Date: 7 Sep 2007 13:22:01
Message: <46e188b9@news.povray.org>
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nemesis wrote:
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> Shay wrote:
>>> However, the slow development of POV-Ray leaves me concerned that this
>>> quality program (or at least, a good deal of the community around it)
>>> may one day disappear.
> 
> I feel that too:  Pixie is just like all renderers out there, obsessed with
> polygon meshes or the likes.  Other than POV, I don't know of any other
> renderer allowing for true mathematical surfaces as shape primitives...
> 
	?? Pixie is a renderman compliant REYES renderer. That means it has
true mathematical surfaces (including true Bezier patches, which POV
doesn't have btw).

		Jerome
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