Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> karpov wrote:
> > could you provide the patch ??
>
>   I would be more interested in the implementation details and the
> algorithm used.

here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_tracing
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-02/lectures/lecture15/

but of course you've already done some googling...

this is a comparison to photon mapping:
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/dmp/awards/2003/Tuttle/finalreport.pdf

> That way developers could brainstorm a good way of
> perhaps implementing it in pov3.7.

more likely povray 4?

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