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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Still looking for MacII ray tracer...
Summary: Yuckky crud.
Keywords: MacII, ray tracer
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Date: 26 May 88 08:09:55 GMT
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I have been using the Render program, and think that you will be vastly
disappointed. It is a port from the Amiga (in turn a port from a VAX) and
uses none of the user interface, and is not only slow but difficult to
use. The specificaton of images is hard, and the program has many annoying
bugs. (The mirror value ranges 0.0 to 1.0, a 1.0 will cause the machine to
bomb. Use 0.9 instead.) The sample images don't come out well. Add an
anti-alising command in the demos and you will get better results. I much
prefer the OPTIK program running under Xenix. It has an interface.

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