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  Re: Where to find a comparison of modern ray-tracers (speed > POVray)  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 4 Nov 2007 20:20:01
Message: <472e6fc1@news.povray.org>

> I'm still looking for any comments at all about alternatives to POV-Ray.
> 
> Are there faster ray tracers out there?
> 
> Is POV-Ray the fastest?
> 
> Do any others have as good scene description languages as POV-Ray?
> 
> Do any support clusters of SMP Intel Macs?
> 

Raytracers are *different*. I can get you a raytracer that is faster and 
has half the features, or produces much lower quality images.

If there was a raytracer that was *exactly* like POV-Ray with the only 
difference of being faster, POV-Ray wouldn't exist, don't you think?


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