"Marc M. Adkins" wrote:

> Related question...is there a body of documentation about POV-Ray internals
> that I have yet to find?  The documentation about how to use it is quite
> extensive, and includes some overview of the ray-tracing process.  I was
> wondering if anyone had collected anypointers or FAQs about the internals
> for those of us who want to venture there?

There is no such body of work that I know of (though there have been
rumors from members of the POV-Team that one day one will be written).
The closest you can come to it for now is to sift through the various
messages in this group and perhaps in the unofficial patches group.
If you have specific questions post them here and those in the know
will generally be happy to share their knowledge with you. A study
of the source code itself will lend some enlightenment and in many
cases the alogrithms used are fairly well documented by the programmers.

For general info on raytracing and some of the algorithms and methods
used you can try -

http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/RTNews/html/

and perhaps -

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq/

-- 
Ken Tyler

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