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7 Jul 2024 06:21:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: About no_radiosity and radiosity off  
From: clipka
Date: 17 Sep 2009 08:53:12
Message: <4ab23138$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
>> I think your assertion that radiosity would work just about the same as 
>> photons makes clear enough how. Radiosity is /not/ photon mapping, and 
>> it is /very/ different. Both use a cache, but that's all - even the 
>> structure of the cache differs extremely.
> 
>   I'm talking about the user's point of view (which seems something you
> are unable to grasp). It doesn't matter how different the implementation
> is inside the source code.

But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make: The user's perception 
of radiosity is somewhat skewed in general, and using photon-alike 
keywords would really not improve that situation at all.


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