Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank From: frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: QRT vs. DKB 2.10 Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 05:27:27 GMT References: <1991Apr6.230941.2585@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr7.032659.23706@engin.umich.edu> Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Lines: 21 In article <1991Apr7.032659.23706@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: > >The real question is: Has anybody ported PRT (Parallel Ray Tracer :)? > >Given a couple of machines, PRT will blow either of them away :) >Personally, I'm very fond of both QRT and DKB. I am so glad that there are >people out there that are using YACC/BISON/LEX/FLEX to produce better >input languages to programs (something RayShade 3.0 was SERIOUSLY lacking in :). >What I'd like to see is a parallel version of DKB. Hmmm... maybe if/when I >get X11 going on the Amiga, we'll have a PD socket library, then we can use >that for distributed processing... :) > >Ralph Seguin gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu -- How would the machines need to be connected to use PRT? You know, it's really beginning to look like we should come up with a FAQ-type list for people interested in this sort of things. FTP sites you can snag them from, etc. -- Frank McPherson INTERNET: emcphers@fox.cs.vt.edu --