POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : quicker render alternatives to povray : Re: quicker render alternatives to povray Server Time: 9 Jul 2008 06:56:44 GMT
  Re: quicker render alternatives to povray  
From: William Tracy
Date: 17 Mar 2008 00:23:38
nemesis wrote:
> I don't think there's anything much faster or memory-efficient for this kind of
> problem (huge amounts of spheres) than a raytracer.

Scanline rendering could actually be *slower* if the bottleneck is in 
the sheer number of objects.

Ouch.

-- 
William Tracy
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    In the land of the blind, the autopilot is king.
     -- Kim Stanley Robinson, _Red Mars_


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