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From: Ron Parker
Date: 8 Dec 1999 08:43:12
Message: <slrn84so3i.v8.ron.parker@ron.gwmicro.com>

On 8 Dec 1999 04:02:34 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  Btw: Are there _any_ renderer that can do _real_ non-uniform transformations
>to objects?
>  Changing the location of triangle vertices is not real non-uniform
>transformation.

There is a paper out there somewhere - can't remember whether I saw it on the 
web or in an old ACM publication - that talks about methods for tracing curved
rays.  It's still not perfect, because it essentially traces the curves as a
series of line segments, but at least it doesn't require tesselation.

-- 
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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