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6 Sep 2024 12:14:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Say it isn't so!  
From: Ronald L  Parker
Date: 1 Dec 1998 19:18:40
Message: <36668742.10650067@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 13:30:08 +0200, Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee>
wrote:

>Both (true) radiosity and photon mapping should be applicable to a
>raytracing engine. I am not sure if they can be applied to POV without
>fundamental changes; I believe both would require some kind of surface
>meshing.

Photon mapping doesn't require any meshing.  Whether it can be
smoothly added to POV is another question, but one which I hope to
find an answer to once I get the superpatch where I want it.


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