POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : relativity : Re: relativity Server Time
2 May 2024 13:11:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: relativity  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 29 Nov 2002 01:03:55
Message: <3de7034b@news.povray.org>
"Rohan Bernett" <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:web.3de6ef98c20e2bf3c571aa6c0@news.povray.org...
> Would it be possible to create a patch for Povray that would allow it to
> turn it into a relativistic raytracer?

Practically impossible. You would be much better off writing a relativistic
raytracer from scratch. POV is big and complex, you would have to change
pretty much everything, and not everything it does would even make sense in
a relativistic raytracer. It isn't something you could just patch into POV.
It would be much more productive to work on Backlight instead: it already
does the basics.


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