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5 Jul 2024 15:35:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: real time simulation with ray tracing  
From: JRG
Date: 22 Nov 2003 12:48:50
Message: <3fbfa182@news.povray.org>
Biter Bilen wrote:

> I am a senior student and for the graduation project we will implement 3d
> optical simulation as a part of the whole project. Ray tracing is the main
> issue here. But as I was examing the optics.pow, i recognized that it was
> too slow.
> Since our system will be real-time, is ray-tracing appropriate for
> implementation? if appropriate why is the optics.pow so slow?
> thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> biter bilen
> ----------
> METU
> Computer Engineering Department

Apart from what alreay said by Christoph, I remember Thorsten talking 
about a real time raytracing demo... IIRC called Nature Sux or something 
like that. I don't have it anymore but as far as I remember it was 
pretty impressive.

--
Jonathan.


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