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| Chuck Sommerville <chucks@he.net> wrote in message news:FsK824.2vK@lugnet.com... (...) I was talking about rendering engines like LDLite, MLCad, L3Lab, etc. You are correct that BFC won't help ray tracing. The big thing that would help ray tracing (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) In other words, every face in a subfile will have other faces in the part-construction that will form the other side of the solid, right? That sounds correct. (...) There are only a couple of non-symmetrical primitives, but they are used (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) BFC wont help ray tracers. Just because a surface isn't visible from the _current_ camera position, doesn't mean it doesnt cast a shadow or a reflection. Ray tracers need those backsides. -Chuck (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| koen <koen.jordens@studen...ven.ac.be> wrote in message news:FsK5CI.BxG@lugnet.com... (...) time, (...) "Fast" is a relative term. For very large models, Datsville for example, it takes long enough to render that even a 30% increase in speed makes (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I've got a little question. Why are you working so hard on BFC. The rendering in Ldraw, L3lab, MLcad,.... is already very fast. Is the speed improvement gained with BFC supposed to provide the extra time, so you can turn an model in realtime, with a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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