"pan" <pan### [at] syixcom> wrote:

> What's your take on the ray tracer vs. renderer issue?
>
>  Are you suggesting that it doesn't matter what kind of
> software is used to create a submission to the Internet
> Ray Tracing Competition?
>
> People have tried submitting photographs, paint program
> images, and scan line renderings.

The word "render" is used to cover all sorts of algorithms and software.  You
can even render music on a computer.

For 3D imaging its mostly: Rasterizing (scan line), Raytracing, Ray Casting,
Z-buffer and Photon Mapping as probably the most common methods, either used
separate or combined. Raytracing seems to be winning on (Monte Carlo) since

algorithm. Maybe somebody else knows more about that.

Here is an excellent article about these different methods.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/779550/are-there-any-rendering-alternatives-to-rasterisation-or-ray-tracing

Hildur K.

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