POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ray tracers and transformations : Re: Ray tracers Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:17:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ray tracers  
From: Severi Salminen
Date: 15 Mar 2008 11:47:14
Message: <47dbfd92$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> (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...)

Well, I use the simplified form I posted to this thread. It is
computationally quite simple. So it all boils down to how often you
actually need the "unneeded" intersection and what is the net effect. I
haven't measured it.


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