Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PD Ray Tracers for Mac
Message-ID: <523@biar.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 02:57:11 GMT
References: <4YHragy00W0-MAilU2@andrew.cmu.edu> <12625@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <12625@reed.UUCP> rbrewer@reed.UUCP (Robert S. Brewer) writes:
>In article <4YHragy00W0-MAilU2@andrew.cmu.edu> kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel) writes:
>>I'm sure this must have been discussed before, but I am having trouble
>>finding PD ray tracers for the Mac.  Are there any?  (Has DBW been
>	The short answer is yes. I currently have both DBW 1.0 and QRT 1.4
>running on the Mac II. The long answer is a little bit more complex...

Just offhand, I'd be interested in a raytracer that lets me map some images
onto a plane and then reflect them off geometric objects.  What I'd like
to do just for fun is hack it so that I can generate images of a plane
that contains the Mandelbrot set and move some reflective balls over and
around it, generating an animation like the infamous MandelZoom I did a
few years ago.  That was fun; after a month of evenings and over 100
billion floating point ops, there were scorch marks on top of the 68881,
but it sure did look purty.

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