Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!musashi
From: musashi@chinet.UUCP (Irving Moy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Dark 'gears' output from Mark VandeWettering's raytracer
Keywords: gears.c raytracer Mark VandeWettering
Message-ID: <6574@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 03:35:04 GMT
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Hi folks!!!

	I have Mark VandeWettering's raytracer running on a Sun 3/260
and Version 2.4 of Eric Haines' SPD (I took the SPD that Mark posted and
applied the patch that Eric posted to get Ver. 2.4).  I display the output
of the raytracer on a Targa 32; I had to add an extra byte in the output
file for the Targa's alpha channel.  The output of 'balls.c' looks great;
I now have my very own "sphereflake"!!!
	I tried 'gears' at a size factor of 4 and the resulting output is
quite dark.  The background is a nice UNC blue but the gear surfaces are
very dark and so is the reflecting polygon underneath the gears.
Has anyone else tried to raytrace 'gears' with Mark's program yet???
Enquiring minds want to know.....(BTW, if you look closely at 'sphereflake',
you can see Elvis (recursively, of course)).


				Irv Moy
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