POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Backlight : Re: Backlight Server Time
31 Jul 2024 22:19:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Backlight  
From: Alain
Date: 6 Aug 2009 21:56:50
Message: <4a7b89e2$1@news.povray.org>

> Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:
>> Awesome! ...I tried to fake such effect with the SDL for years, without
>> success of course. It's incredible that you can come up with a patch for it
>> so quickly...
> 
> I find it more incredible that nobody ever bothered to invest the time before,
> given how easy it turned out to be ;)
> 
> 

It turned out easy once you put yourself into doing it.

Maybe others got frighten by some appearent or supposed dificulty.
Maybe others just "assumed" it was not possible.
Maybe somebody had a go at it, but used the wrong aproach and ended up 
with some over-complicated and very ineffecient code. Hit a dead end and 
renounced.


Alain


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