Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3ea03fdb@news.povray.org> , Andreas Kreisig <and### [at] gmxde> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>BTW: to work
>>with primitives (CSG) is somewhat outdated.
> 
> 
> No, here you are wrong.  It simply happens that CSG is harder to do if you
> don't use plain ray-tracing.  

I think even if people used plain raytracing, they wouldn't use CSG as 
their primary modelling method.

>And the default renderers shipped with any
> commercial package today do not use plain ray-tracing, but various hybrid
> scanline/ray-tracing methods.  

Are you sure? Cinema4d seems to do raytracing and when I last saw it you 
could do "zu Grundobjekt konvertieren" when you were doing CSG with 
primitives.

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