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29 Jul 2024 18:23:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A modest proposal  
From: SamuelT 
Date: 3 Jul 1999 18:09:41
Message: <377E8AAD.27C4F64A@aol.com>
Ken wrote:

> 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

Please, don't let POV be a triangle-based renderer!!! That's a big reason I
choose pov over over such raytracers as RayDream!!!


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