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  Re: stochastic (monte-carlo) tracing  
From: Severi Salminen
Date: 14 Sep 2008 12:36:17
Message: <48cd3d81$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:

> All ray tracers go from the camera to the objects in the scene then to
> the light source(s). It's called backward ray tracing. Much more
> effecient that way.

Actually, many raytracers do a hybrid: they start simultaneously from
camera AND lightsource. At least bidirectional path tracing works like
that. They then connect the paths somewhere in between. That seems very
promising technique.


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