POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : render direction : Re: render direction Server Time
9 Aug 2024 01:27:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: render direction  
From: Josh English
Date: 9 Nov 2000 14:06:17
Message: <3A0AF5A6.8D03B49D@spiritone.com>
That is very strange. Was this bottom left to upper right or bottom right to
upper left? I still don't undserstand why the order the rays are traced matter
so much. Any enlightenment?

Josh

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3A0A1728.6DED2CB0@rsp.com.au> , Ben Paschke <ben### [at] rspcomau>
> wrote:
>
> > Hiya folks,
> >
> > Just for a laugh, has anyone thought of adding the option of which way
> > to render the image?
> > For example, bottom to top or right to left, instead of the regular top
> > to bottom starting at the left.
> > Once or twice i've thought it may be nice...
>
> Changing the render direction will have noticable side effect if you are
> using procedural textures like POV-Ray does.  I have posted two images of
> the spotted.pov example scene that comes with POV-Ray.  One is rendered from
> the top to the bottom, the other from the bottom to the top.
>
>       Thorsten
>
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