"Mathias" <Mat### [at] dlrde> writes:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> >
> >   Somehow I got the impression that perhaps you haven't understood how
> > povray raytraces a scene. I may very well be mistaken, but do you think
> > that povray shoots rays from the light sources towards the objects and
> > then bounces them from the objects to the camera?
> >   If not, then just forget this question :)
>
> Then please tell me how povray raytraces a scene ? I dont know it.......

This is a question for the master of links...

As for hardcopies I have a (German) reference where (among other things)
the principles of raytracing are explained:

T. Rauber
Algorithmen in der Computergrafik
Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart
ISBN 3-519-02127-7

Thomas

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http://www.thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)

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