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29 Jul 2024 18:23:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A modest proposal  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 31 Jul 1999 18:06:17
Message: <37A3763B.9AAB4897@erols.com>
Spider wrote:
> 
> Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > The fact is that meshes are extremely powerful and CAN produce perfect image
> > quality if the artist and the renderer are careful.  The introduction of
> > such techniques as NURBS and adaptive degradation make meshes perfectly
> > smooth (finally!!!).
> 
> Sure, sure. but that isn't implementable in POV (Nurbs, afaik is a
> modeller thing, not a engine part..)

It can certainly be implemented; however, it's probably a very *slow*
ray-surface calculation, especially compared to a mesh.

Regards,
John


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