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Re: Opinions sought on rendering method
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:28:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
  
  • conditional lines are not rendered. Not a huge problem here, could become one on models with many rounded surfaces.

This is one of the main reasons I posted asking for opinions. I think I can fix this, but I know that fixing it is going to be a lot of work. There’s no point bothering if people aren’t going to like the results.


  
  • Black is too dark/uniform. Lighter edgelines?

That can be fixed (with relatively small effort).


  
  • The complex transparency effect in the rounded edge of the windscreen is nice but brings nothing to legibility

This seems to me to be the main reason to use a ray-tracer in the first place. If you don’t want refraction or reflections, why not use a renderer like LDView? (See my other response for more.)

--Travis



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(...) For me, the keypoint here is "for instructions". Anything that remove legibility to the image should be avoided. In both versions conditional lines are not rendered. Not a huge problem here, could become one on models with many rounded (...) (17 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)

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