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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help me spend my money
Message-ID: <11900@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 06:59:53 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
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+-- morris-ng@cup.portal.com (Yuklung Morris Ng) writes:
| VideoScape is nice but is not for ray-tracing.

Absolutely true -- but then, ProWrite isn't for database queries, and
MaxiPlan isn't for word processing.

Sometimes people think that all image synthesis is "ray-tracing," when in
fact there are many ways to render 3D synthetic scenes.  Ray-tracing is 
only one way.  It's simple, slow and remarkably realistic. 

VideoScape employs a completely different rendering technique which doesn't
have a catchy name like "ray-tracing."  It might be called "conventional" or
"classic" rendering.  While the results are not as realistic (although VS2.0
gets close to raytracer results), and the algorithm is not as simple, it
runs orders of magnitude faster.  This makes VideoScape really the only
choice for doing animations of any length.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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