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29 Jul 2024 20:23:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A modest proposal  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 4 Jul 1999 02:41:37
Message: <377f0221@news.povray.org>
Ken wrote in 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.
>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.


Phong-shaded triangles - isn't that what AutoCad release 12 uses?  It looks
truly awful.

Mark


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