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From: pharr-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU (Matthew Pharr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT and ray tracing
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Date: 8 Jun 91 05:51:38 GMT
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I'd just love to take advantage of the '040 to do some serious ray tracing,
but I've been having trouble getting a) a ray-tracer to work correctly, and
b) finding a ray-tracer that writes out into a format that is somewhat easy
to display on the megapixel...

I've played around with dbk trace and RayShade a little, but what I'd really
like would be something that directly outputs TIFF files or something
straightforward like that...

-So- if anyone out there who is raytracing with something that they like
(NeXT interface not required) could make any suggestions/give me any pointers
on where I can get a ray-tracer that works nicely on the NeXT, I'd greatly
appreciate it...

matt
pharr@cs.yale.edu