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30 Jul 2024 06:29:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What do vista and light buffers do?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 31 Aug 2000 12:28:07
Message: <slrn8qt2me.2jb.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:17:50 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On 30 Aug 2000 23:55:38 -0400, ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker)
>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.
>
>That's one way to put it but maybe it only stores the bounding box
>vertices in spherical coordinates with respect to every light source?

I fail to see a difference between what I said and what you said.

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


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