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29 Jul 2024 02:29:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Full area lighting in next beta  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 6 Nov 2007 13:56:44
Message: <4730b8ec$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>> No, it can be much more complex than that. Go "Up" twice on the page whose
>> link I posted. It is actually from a dissertation discussing various
>> functions, some of which require more than a handful of parameters.
> 
>   Could someone write a short summary?
> 
>   If it's not just a (user-defined) function which takes certain parameters
> and returns a value/color, then what is it?

A algorithm with up to n**2 complexity per pixel afaict (wthout checking in
detail) from some of the existing algorithms.

	Thorsten


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