I'm not sure if I qualify to answer your question but I'll try.

Spider wrote:
> 
> Ok, I've been povving for a while now, and I think most of you know that I'm not
> very capable :-)
> Well, I have some questions for a pice of work in a class on presentation
> techniques..
> I humbly come to you, people of pov, to ask for your aid in this.
> My questions are in the field of 3D graphics and raytracing in specific.
> 
> 1)
> What are the current "cutting edge" techniques too create 3D images?
> I know of raytracing and scanline rendering. What other techniques exist?
Realtime rendering, like OpenGl and DirectX.  "Cutting Edge"
techniques?  I think the biggest fad is NURBS.  Most high end modelers
have them or a form of them.
> 
> 2)
> 3D packages, prices for theese(full retail prices) as well as the technique they
> are based on.
Kinetics MAX (did they just change there name?)  reatail price $3000
(I'm guessing)
Maya or SoftImage ( Lots, $10000+ )
There are many more.  Look at http://www.4dvision.com  They have a lot
of info there.  Many of these you can get for student prices.  I know
MAX is $1300 bundled with Rhino.  SoftImage is only $1000, but the
license runs out after a year.  Check out http://www.journeyed.com/ for
student prices.
> 
> 3)
> explination of the other concepts in 3D graphics.(I for one don't know what
> NURBS is, this and other things are what I would like to know of)
> 
NURBS is Non-Uniform Rational B-splines.  I'm not sure about the math
behind them.  But they are very flexible in modeling.  Check out
http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~mcm/6.838j/talk.html for some other
interesting concepts in computer graphics.
> 4)
> Good examples of POV in different usages..
> --
> 
??? not sure what you mean here.

> Ok, I know it sounds like I''m trying to get you to do my work, but, I'm not. I
> have some ideas and even more facts about the packages and techniques, but I
> want to have more solid facts(and thoughts) on the subject, since I feel that I
> may have several misunderstandings of facts..
> 
> I'd be glad for any help from the group, thankyou.
> 
> --
> //Spider
>         [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
> What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
>                 "Marian"
>         By: "Sisters Of Mercy"

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