On 2001-01-18 11:44, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>  Basic raytracing is pretty simple. Anyone with minimal knowledge of
>programming and calculus can make a simple sphere/plane raytracer (with
>reflections and refractions and simple textures).
>
>  Scanline rendering is, however, a lot harder process. It requires tons of
>complicated algorithms and code.

Actually, basic scanline rendering is quite simple, even simpler than
raytracing. Making fast enough for action games is different matter,
however (I tried to write a racing game when a 386/25 MHz was a fast
computer - never finished it).

	hp


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