On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> Brett disagrees with my statement that
>
> > > ... Concretely, you generate pixel by pixel, and you have to
> > > operate upon an *updateable* frame buffer.
Not for a ray-tracer. Yes, it is pixel-major, as opposed to object-major like
z-buffering
Brett disagrees with my statement that
> > ... Concretely, you generate pixel by pixel, and you have to
> > operate upon an *updateable* frame buffer.
> I was planning on just writing the resultant image to a file.
> I'm not sure what I would gain by accessing an updateable frame
> buffer, a