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  Re: save rays in a file  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 19 Oct 2007 18:13:09
Message: <47192bf5$1@news.povray.org>
mobile.valter wrote:

> I'm new to Pov-ray. I wanted to know if instead of rendering a camera-like
> image, it is possible to saye rays (position x,y,z and cosine directions)
> into a file?

There is a "trace" function which will return position and normal
for a single ray (and of course you could write this into a file).
But I may have misunderstood what you are trying to do.


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