Josh English wrote:

> I feel kind of silly asking this, so I'll ask it here. I've been ray
> tracing for at least six years with POV-Ray, and I keep hearing about
> scanline rendering, and I'm wondering what the diference is between ray
> tracing and scan-line. I'm sure its something simple but the explanation
> escapes me. Can someone throw me a hint or link or something?

Just found this page yesterday (it maybe in the POV links, I haven't
checked).

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1767/pol.html

It gives lots of definitions for graphic-related terms and algorithms,
including scanline.

G.

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