"Jim" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Still trying to get some practical knowledge about photon mapping. Simple
> question this time... Is there any easily available method or tool to
> visualize saved photon data? By that, I mean seeing a visual representation
> of the photons stored. (much of the literature of photon mapping shows such
> represnetations - ie, Figure 5.4 of Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon
> Mapping)
>
> Since it's 3D data (right?) it's not like you can open up the ".ph" file in
> GIMP (etc.) and expect to see anything. Even just a way to do a planar
> projection of the data would be great. It seems like a simple enough thing
> to do that surely it exists
>
> I've already tried the only solution obvious to me - render the scene
> loading the saved photon file, removing all light source definitions, and
> setting all ambient terms to 0. Is there some better/easier way I'm
> missing?

no

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