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11 Aug 2024 19:36:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange Attractors by Manuel Kasten  
From: Timothy Cook
Date: 15 Mar 2004 23:01:14
Message: <40567c0a@news.povray.org>
Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> btw, Rune, nice image as always, but I believe in this case raytracing isn't
> the way to go.  Using scanline, you don't have to store all the points in
> memory, only the one you're currently drawing, so it wouldn't be any problem
> to draw millions or billions of points :)

Does raytracing necessarily have to load all points into memory?

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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