Thank you for the insight... well it doesn't look like this will be happening
anytime soon.  Maybe something for Pov-ray version 10 :)

The quality or mosaic preview are nice but they still fall short when I need
both passable quality and rendering speed at the same time.  My current
project ( a physics motion simulation study) will probably take upwards of 1
week to render even with the best possible optimizations I can add to my code.

Andrew C


> POV-Scan? :-)
> It would be a tremendous amount of work...first, you would have to
> tesselate all of the primitives. This is impossible for some of
> them...and you would have to add tesselation parameters to the language
> for all the objects. You would also have to make a completely new
> scan-line rendering engine, not much could be reused. And adding a
> rendering feature would be at least twice as much work...maintenance
> would be quite a bit more difficult.
>
> It would be possible to make a raytracing "preview mode" with no
> lighting and simplified shading, and maybe simple depth cuing, maybe
> only rendering the bounding shapes, but this is really not very
> necessary with the quality level adjustment available.
>
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