Re: Ray tracing again

2000-01-04 Thread Brook
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

Ray tracing again

2000-01-04 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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