Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> rf242 <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I am not a computer scientist so maybe I am mistaking something about processor
> > architecture.
>
>   No, you are not mistaken about the processor. You are mistaken about the
> raytracing algorithm. POV-Ray does not test each triangle for each pixel.
> It only tests a small subset of all the triangles.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp
Thanks Warp,

Ok so how does pov ray decide which triangles are in this subset or can you
direct me to where in the pov ray source code this happens.

regards rf242

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