On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:54:37 +0200, Hugo wrote:
>I found out about "Lightflow" today, and I am not satisfied with this.
>
>I am disappointed. In some cases, these free light-algoritms render
>better than POV, and should be implemented into POV, as soon as
>possible. Why haven't the author done this in the first place.

Quite possibly because POV has been around since long before those
algorithms were known.  Possibly because we do this in our spare time.
Possibly because nobody's ever mentioned them before.  Possibly because,
as Nathan mentioned, they don't work all that well in raytracers that
use implicit surfaces.

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

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