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  Re: 99 lines of C++ for an unbiased ray tracer  
From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Date: 15 Jan 2010 14:48:58
Message: <4b50c6aa$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> No, I was just pointing out that this particular program may take many 
> hours to render something that POV-Ray does in minutes because POV-Ray 
> uses a totally different algorithm.

Arguably that program and POV-Ray do not do the same thing and do not 
give the same results, so comparing both is a bit misleading. POV-Ray 
does not do it in minutes... It does a different, less accurate 
approximation.

-- 
Vincent


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