Sorry for the 'newbee'  question but  where can I get the pov file for
the "Cornell Box"??

JK


Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> Interesting that you should mention this.  I recently got the O.K. from one of
> my professors to do an undergraduate research project next semester to add
> backwards raytracing to POV-Ray.  I've been doing a lot of thinking about this
> over the past month and I've got some ideas on how to do it which turned out to
> be very similar to the "photon map" by Henrik Wann Jensen.  Jensen's work with
> photon maps seems to have been a success, both in terms of image quality and in
> rendering speed.  You can read about it at:
> http://www.gk.dtu.dk/home/hwj/
> http://www.gk.dtu.dk/home/hwj/papers/ewr7/index.html
> 
> An example of rendering time (from Jensen's paper):
>   Machine: 100Mhz Pentium with 32 megs of RAM
>   -A diffuse Cornell box (standard radiosity test scene)
>     Preprocessing (about 300k 'photons'): 67 sec
>     Rendering (at 1280x960): 8 min
>   -A glossy Cornell box
>     Preprocessing (about 380k 'photons'): 56 sec
>     Rendering (at 2560x1920): 50 min
> 
> A render of the diffuse Cornell box at the same resolution by the Radiance
> renderer took 60 minutes.
> 
> My original work will not be as extensive as Jensen's, but I will try to do it
> in such a way that future enhancements will be easy for myself or others to
> add.
> 
> Because I'll be doing this for college credit, I will be able to justify
> spending some extra time on POV. :-)  However, input from other POV programmers
> will be very helpful.  If I can get enough done, I really want to combine this
> with your dispersion patch, which could produce some really nice images.
> 
> -Nathan Kopp
> 
> Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Alright, everyone keeps asking about caustics, of one sort or another,
> > so maybe next week I'll tinker around with adding it.
> >
> > Before I start, though, has anyone made or found a list of previous
> > attempts that have failed?  I'd hate to reinvent a wheel and discover
> > the hard way that it won't roll...
> >
> > --
> > Daren Scot Wilson
> > Member, ACM
> > dar### [at] pipelinecom
> > www.newcolor.com
> > --
> > "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
> >                      -- William Shedd

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