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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> A path tracer sports physically correct rendering,
>
>> Well, maybe "closer to physically correct rendering". Let me know when you
>> have a ray tracer that supports creating diffraction gratings without cheating.
>
> I won't consider a renderer "physically correct" until you create a
> scene to replicate the double-slit experiment and the renderer gives the
> correct image.
light transport is hard enough without taking in consideration light's
dual nature. :P
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nemesis wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> How do you suggest that the ray-tracing part separates the object that
>> it intersects? Without a complete overhaul, it will have to support all
>> of the objects that POV-Ray supports. Otherwise, you have to decide at
>> the time the ray hits an object whether you process that on the GPU or
>> CPU. Then, what do you gain by offloading just the triangle and sphere
>> code to the GPU?
>
> How about this: a -gpu flag to povray? People turn it on when they
> want to indicate a complete mesh-only scene to be run on GPU. The
> parser then simply ignores whatever other povray primitives are there.
>
Considering I got stuck writing the parser in every undergrad class I
had, I am going with no. Maybe as a last resort.
> now tell me: please say you're a hottie german blondie and not a fat
> old fart! :D
Neither.
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andrel wrote:
> On 14-1-2010 16:54, nemesis wrote:
>>>> dear. ;)
>>>
>> sweetie.
>>
>> darling.
>
> It is a good practice on the internet to assume that anyone that has a
> female sounding name is in fact an overweight 70 YO male.
That is actually good practice for the internet in general. ;-)
You had to go and call him on it. I was just going to let him keep
digging. Strangely, I was told by another povray local at an informal
meeting in NYC, that he assumed Sabrina was just another strange
sounding masculine European name.
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> now tell me: please say you're a hottie german blondie and not a fat
>> old fart! :D
>
> Neither.
http://www.myspace.com/cannibalporn
ZOMG, your teh cute! :D
kiddin... ^^;
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nemesis wrote:
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> http://www.myspace.com/cannibalporn
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> ZOMG, your teh cute! :D
>
>
> kiddin... ^^;
Just a few years back, the only Sabrina Kilian on google was a russian
ice skater. Now, wow, my name has become popular.
But no, not me.
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I was told by another povray local at an informal
> meeting in NYC, that he assumed Sabrina was just another strange
> sounding masculine European name.
Even the Goons knew of her.
http://www.goon.org/usgoons/sabrina/
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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nemesis wrote:
> perhaps this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_tracing
Let me know when Schrodenger's equations come into the ray tracing calcs. ;-)
> took 100 Sun SparcStation1s 1 month back in 1991 to generate the most
> expensive (but beautiful) cornell box of sorts ever! :D
To be fair, that's 100 1 MHz computers for 30 days, or 1 3GHz computer for 1
day. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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nemesis wrote:
> light transport is hard enough without taking in consideration light's
> dual nature. :P
Light doesn't really have a "dual" nature, but we've been thru that already. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>
> > I was told by another povray local at an informal
> > meeting in NYC, that he assumed Sabrina was just another strange
> > sounding masculine European name.
>
> Even the Goons knew of her.
>
> http://www.goon.org/usgoons/sabrina/
ZOMG, are those for real?!
it's a beautiful name, I love ones with S or V. My daughter is Vanessa. ^_^
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nemesis wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> wrote:
>> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>
>>> I was told by another povray local at an informal
>>> meeting in NYC, that he assumed Sabrina was just another strange
>>> sounding masculine European name.
>> Even the Goons knew of her.
>>
>> http://www.goon.org/usgoons/sabrina/
>
> ZOMG, are those for real?!
>
> it's a beautiful name, I love ones with S or V. My daughter is Vanessa. ^_^
>
>
It is and Vanessa is too. Did you know that Vanessa was coined by
Jonathan Swift who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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