POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ray tracers and transformations : Re: Ray tracers Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:18:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ray tracers  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 15 Mar 2008 09:35:46
Message: <47dbdec2$1@news.povray.org>
Severi Salminen wrote:

> So this is not something that is mandatory but a convenience?

Pretty much, yes.

(Although if you're bothering to compute the coefficients of a quadratic 
equation, it seems a shame to compute them all over again to find the 
second point of intersection...)

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