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> But anyway, if he has used such advanced technologies and optical
> utilities, he could be considered as the first *raytracer* ever.


and he wrote a user's guide about it... The "rays" used were strings but the
main idea was there.

It took a lot of time, so that was certainly raytracing...

Here are the best links I could find (and sorry they're PDF) but if people
are interested I could post better images and a short description of how it
was done.
http://students.cec.wustl.edu/~cs453/lectures/14Raytracing.pdf
http://wwwicg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Lehre/VSem_MG02/PhotorealBilder.pdf

G.
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