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29 Jul 2024 12:20:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A modest proposal  
From: Ken
Date: 30 Jun 1999 09:59:52
Message: <377A2299.8056D310@pacbell.net>
Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> I just had an idea for an improvement to the POV-Ray scene language:
> 
> Get rid of all the object keywords except blob, julia_fractal, and poly.

Why complicate things with such slow primitives. Each of your chosen objects
are difficult to compute and are slow to render. I propose instead reverting
to a simple phong shaded triangle rendering system. This would make realtime
raytracing possible and the are no shapes that cannot be represented with
triangles.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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