POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : GPU rendering : Re: GPU rendering Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:21:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GPU rendering  
From: Invisible
Date: 13 Jan 2010 11:14:50
Message: <4b4df17a$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:

> What hope is there for an old-fashioned, dog-slow, CPU-only raytracer to 
> still be alive by 2020?

Depends on whether any other renderers pop up that can do what POV-Ray does.

Scan-line rendering is way, way faster than any conceivable ray-tracing 
algorithm. And yet, people still use ray tracers...


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