>>  until I realised that
>> *everybody* writes ray tracers and nobody except me considers this to be
>> a significant achievement...
> 
> Bull.

Elephant?

> (What you said, BTW, is commonly referred to as "hyperbole")

Oh. Right. I thought that was a kind of conic section?

> I don't write raytracers, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who 
> manages to wrap their heads around the maths involved and has the coding 
> skills to do so.

OK. Well apparently you're in the minority. It seems every time I talk 
about my various ray tracer programs, all anybody can say is "yeah, but 
it doesn't have feature X" or "oh, you're wasting your time, it'll never 
be as fast as Y" or "I think that's a stupid way to do it, why don't you 
give up now?" or...

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