POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.pov4.discussion.general : Feature Re-requests - Normal Map and Displacement Map Support : Re: Feature Re-requests - Normal Map and Displacement Map Support Server Time: 5 Sep 2008 05:49:34 GMT
  Re: Feature Re-requests - Normal Map and Displacement Map Support  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Feb 2008 16:34:21
Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> In the C++ code, each object would have 'trace ray', 'is point inside 
> shape', etc. and a new 'get isosurface function'. Of course it would be 
> impossible or very hard to implement for some objects (like text or 
> julia_fractal).

  The C++ core code should go towards a simpler, not a more complicated
design.

  What's wrong in having all those functions for every primitive as a
simple library of functions?

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                                                          - Warp


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