On 4 Dec 2001 15:31:40 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:


>:>  Show us some lightflow images which can't be done in POV-Ray.
>
>: I advise "lightflow" searching at povray.binaries.images first :-)
>
>  Granted, Lightflow can do pretty impressive things faster than povray (ie.
>if you try to simulate the same image with povray it can take a lot longer).
>However, the same holds in the other direction as well. And I'm pretty sure
>that there are awesome images made with povray which are either impossible or
>extremely slow to do with lightflow.
>  Besides, AFAIK povray is usually faster than lightflow in many things.
No hope... I don't think so... povray is faster than lightflow only if
U use basic primitives like spheres etc, because lightflow tesselates
them. But in real scenes (the ones you get with a modelling program)
you don't use spheres, cylinders etc, but polygons, nurbs, b-splines,
and subdivision surfaces. In those things lightflow is faster...

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