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

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : What do vista and light buffers do? : Re: What do vista and light buffers do?		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 00:27:51 EDT (-0400)

From: Ron Parker
Date: 30 Aug 2000 23:55:38
Message: <slrn8qrmj7.289.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On 30 Aug 2000 18:40:54 -0400, Warp wrote:
>Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>: The vista buffer is a 2-d representation of the locations of the objects in 
>: the scene, as seen from the camera.
>
>  How does povray determine those 2D areas?

By projecting the bounding boxes onto a sphere, I suspect.  I've never looked.

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

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