POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: What do vista and light buffers do?: Re: What do vista and light buffers do?

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From: Ron Parker
Date: 30 Aug 2000 14:03:03
Message: <slrn8qqjrs.20f.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:34:39 +0200, Nicolas Calimet wrote:
>> The light buffers are similar, one per light, and are used for tracing
>> shadow rays.
>
>	Don't know well the algo though...
>	For lights these are not only 2D but 3D: a box which
>faces have a 2D representation of the objects around. Using light

That's still 2D.  

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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