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29 Jul 2024 10:21:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Extent of pov's abilities  
From: Ken
Date: 8 Jun 2002 10:31:50
Message: <3D021644.4C93BF07@pacbell.net>
Dylan Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi, my name's Dylan Martin and I'm new to this group, but I was wondering if
> someone could help me.
> 
> I'm using POV-ray 3.1g and I'm wondering if it can be used as a real-time
> rendering engine like OpenGL or Direct X?  Can somebody please help me if
> they know how.

Basically, no. With a fast enough computer, and very simple scenes,
POV-Ray can come close but in the majority of cases the algorithms
used by POV-Ray are so computationally intensive you will find it
much too slow to be useful for real-time rendering.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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