In article <3f88ad21$1@news.povray.org>, David Buck <dav### [at] simbeoncom> 
wrote:

> If anyone is interested in learning how ray tracing works or wants an 
> excuse to learn Smalltalk, I've written a (very) simplistic ray tracer 
> in Smalltalk and made the code freely available.  Don't expect anything 
> dramatic - this version isn't even as powerful as DKBTrace was.  My 
> purpose in writing it was to see how ray tracing would look in a pure 
> object oriented language, to help teach some techniques in Smalltalk, 
> and to give me something fun to write rather than business applications.

Have you ever done anything in Objective C? It is basically C with a 
Smalltalk-like object system layered over it. And Objective-C++ is the 
same system layered over C++...you could use C++ classes for matrices 
and vectors, and do the rest of the program as you would in a more OO 
manner. There's a raytracing toolkit of some sort written in it:
http://www.artoolkit.org/

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