[Shootout-list] Ray tracer

[Greg Buchholz]

--- Sebastien Loisel <sloisel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Previous? Can you bring me up to speed?

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2005-March/001117.html

> 
> This is a nice program but if I read this right it is brute force. It
> maps isect to objects; the point of the other program is to do
> something less than map isect to objects. Unless the lazyness is doing
> something I'm not getting?

    Nope, brute force.  Its merely a proof-of-concept that a ray tracer
can be done in <100 LOC.  We could always make it a "same thing" test and
let the masses produce all the optimizations their little hearts desire.

Greg Buchholz




		
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