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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Parallel ray tracers (summary)
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I only received two replies to this question.  Here they are:
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 From alan@msc.edu Mon May 13 18:40:04 1991
 I wrote a raytracer for the Connection Machine, written in (mostly)
 standard Fortran 90.  It can read Neutral File Format models and
 uses Goldsmith & Salmon's automatic heirarchy generation to create
 the bounding volumes.
 
 We videotaped some flybys over Eric Haines' fractal sphereflake that
 look pretty cool. 
 
 It will eventually be submitted to one of the anonymous FTP archives, but
 for now I'm willing to distribute a beta-test copy to anyone who is
 interested. 
 
 Alan E. Klietz  (AHPCRC)
 Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
 1200 Washington Avenue South
 Minneapolis, MN  55415
 ph: +1 612 626 1737	       Internet: alan@msc.edu
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 From Eric Haines:
 RayShade is also parallelizable, actually; it uses LINDA.


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