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  Re: Povray 4? wish list  
From: Warp
Date: 4 Dec 2001 18:36:11
Message: <3c0d5dea@news.povray.org>
Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce <ken### [at] uniplanit> wrote:
: 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...

  So by your definition, these are not "real scenes":

http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2001-04-30/aseafort.jpg
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2000-04-30/drunkpat.jpg
http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-12-31/travieso.jpg

  And I have yet to actually see measurements of identical triangle mesh
scenes rendered significantly faster in lightflow than in povray.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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