rif_xu@eds.ericsson.se (08/18/89)
I'm interested in doing some Ray Tracing on a MacII. Thus I wonder if there are any such programs fir this computer. Thanks Sigge Ruschkowski kjr@kkeka1.ericsson.se
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (08/20/89)
Recently, a port of a simle unix ray-tracer was posted to this newsgroup,
the tracer could only handle bitmap planes, and scheres. You had control
over the transparency and albedo of the spheres. The tracer runs off of
text files, and produces a binary file of pixels (except that the file
starts with ascii text of the dimensions of the picture.)
The macintosh part of the port consisted of a little program to read the
file and display it on the mac screen. Since it was more than ten times
slower than it should have been, I rewrote it and posted the result to
this group.
--- David Phillip Oster 7 line signature follows
Keith Sproul, head of microcomputer support at Union Carbide, NJ, complained
about the poorly digitized fellatio on an IBM porno program. "Mac is better
on everything, and this is no execption." -- "Computer Porn at the Office"
by Reese Erlich, _This_World_, S.F. Chronicle, p.8, Aug 13, 1989
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