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29 Jul 2024 16:20:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray: the benefits  
From: nemesis
Date: 7 Nov 2011 05:50:01
Message: <web.4eb7b7a8b2cbacd39a1bcfb90@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 06.11.2011 20:05, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
>
> > Having said that, I'm not really sure what capabilities other renderers
> > have. Certainly ones optimised for realtime work tend not to have
> > sophisticated light transport, with things like caustics, soft shadows,
> > etc. Then again, I hear there's a new vogue for "unbiased" renderers,
> > which are even more realistic than POV-Ray. (And, one presumes,
> > consequently they must be crushingly slow...)
>
> You mean something like MCPov?

Probably.  He certainly wasn't thinking of Blender's new Cycles or other gpu
unbiased (mesh-based) renderers out there.


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