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5 Aug 2024 14:14:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Error rendering scattering media  
From: Timothy R  Cook
Date: 10 Sep 2002 13:34:00
Message: <3d7e2d08$1@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3d7e1eaa@news.povray.org> , "Timothy R. Cook" 
> <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:
> 
>>Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>>>Gwen & Emory Stagmer wrote:
>>>
>>>>The effect looks like some kind of scan line error.
>>>
>>>POV-Ray is a ray tracer, not a scanline renderer.  [snip]
>>
>>The lad said 'looks like', not 'is'.
> 
> 
> I suppose that depends on how you interpret the whole sentence, not just two
> words of it ... you can either interpret as "looks like some kind of scan
> line" or "looks like some kind of scan line error".  I used the second, you
> the first interpretation...

Eh...wtf

I interpret it to be 'looks like some kind of error of the type a scan
line render would produce', which seems to be what he meant.  You are
seeming to interpret it to be 'looks like an error that only scan line
renderers produce'.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
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