Biter Bilen wrote:
> I am a senior student and for the graduation project we will implement 3d
> optical simulation as a part of the whole project. Ray tracing is the main
> issue here. But as I was examing the optics.pow, i recognized that it was
> too slow.
> Since our system will be real-time, is ray-tracing appropriate for
> implementation? if appropriate why is the optics.pow so slow?
> thanks for any suggestions.

First: Wrong newsgroup, please read the '[READ BEFORE POSTING]' message 
in this group.

The 'optics.pov' sample scene is not a typical example for a raytracing 
scene, it makes excessive use of photon mapping and media.  If 
raytracing can be used in your project depends on what you are trying to 
do, you did not tell anything about it.

Christoph

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