"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:

> Have you tried Tachyon ... it is supplied with VMD but is a stand along
> raytracer, is very fast, can handle very large numbers of objects (without the
> slow scene parsing times of PovRay), if you have a cluster or HPC facility or
> multiple cores it will make full use of those (threads or MPI based for
> multiple cpus), etc etc. Designed I imagine for exactly what you are talking
> about, fast, a raytracer, perhaps not the same quality of larger more involved
> packages. It is also built as just an library so you can incorporate it into
> your own code. Oh and yes, easy to write an exporter/parser for the scene file.

Thanks! Another great lead. I was just reading the docs and looks very
promising. I'm giving Tachyon a try.

-Rahul

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