POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : quicker render alternatives to povray : Re: quicker render alternatives to povray Server Time
30 Jul 2024 22:18:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: quicker render alternatives to povray  
From: William Tracy
Date: 16 Mar 2008 20:23:38
Message: <47ddc81a$1@news.povray.org>
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.

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William Tracy
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