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29 Jul 2024 06:18:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An Idea for "Backwards-Raytracing"  
From: Vance Roussin
Date: 12 Aug 1998 00:22:25
Message: <35d10976.39365492@news.povray.org>
How about a caustic keyword for the light source and the object used
to create the caustic effect. In other words the only real
backwards-raytracing would be between those two objects. It would cut
down on the cpu-time considerably.

Just a thought.


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