POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Distributed render : Re: Distributed render Server Time
3 Aug 2024 02:19:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Distributed render  
From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Date: 11 Jun 2004 07:23:17
Message: <Xns950587C648CE4raf256com@203.29.75.35>
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>  Or do you have at hands ready algorithm where it is easy to find
> pixels in image where changed finish is visible (including reflections
> and transparency of other objects)?

Ofcourse we have. The raytrace procedure does *exacly* it, only need to add 
extra value returned by it (nor only R,G,B but also information like 
bool was_object_XXX_hit)
 
> If you already know you can recreate those few pixels because there is
> no mirror or transparent I do not believe that all 10.000 lines,
> 10.df3 files and 30 textures are *all* visible in those two short rows
> of pixels. Conditional parsing is popular solution.

Its also a good idea.


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