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From: flatline@weedeater.uucp (Ken Musgrave)
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Subject: Re: References for Intro. to & Algorithms for Ray Tracing.
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Date: 3 Apr 89 22:09:22 GMT
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In article <11391@s.ms.uky.edu> munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
>I would like some references for Introduction to ray Tracing and
>possible algorithms/code for the same. In particular, it is for
>Terrain Data over a regular grid.

  You can write to the Yale computer science department and request a copy
of Research Report RR-639 "Grid Tracing: Fast Ray Tracing for Height Fields"
for info an algorithm specifically developed for ray tracing terrain models.
Also see Mastin et al. "Fourier Synthesis of Ocean Scenes" in IEEE CG&A
March, 1987 for an alternative approach.

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