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Hi,
I'm going to try and make a raytracer but before I start I was wondering
if anyone would be interested in working on it with me?

I'm only doing it so that I can learn more so the program will be open
source.  If anyone else would like to learn from it then please contact
me by email.

Afterthought: is this a bit off topic?
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Quote:> Hi,
> I'm going to try and make a raytracer but before I start I was wondering
> if anyone would be interested in working on it with me?

Doesn't Povray do that?

Quote:> I'm only doing it so that I can learn more so the program will be open
> source.  If anyone else would like to learn from it then please contact
> me by email.

> Afterthought: is this a bit off topic?

Not as far as I am aware.

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Read the very next sentence of my original post:

Quote:> > I'm only doing it so that I can learn more

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Hi,
No one seems interested, what about if I tell you that I'll do all the
maths?  Does that make the offer more tempting?  <grin>
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    How about you?

it is not that i'm not interested.
I don't have time :-(
I have my own reasons for wanting to learn to do the same.
I am curious would this be a variation of POV, RIB, or a whole new
interface/standard?
There are a few things i'd like to do that pov can't seem to do.
and althought i think that a procedural shader (for bmrt) could do them,
one does not yet exist.

I would like to hear form you as your project progresses.

please don't get discouraged by the lack of voices.
personally i work better with silence.

phrostie.

Quote:> Hi,
> No one seems interested, what about if I tell you that I'll do all the
> maths?  Does that make the offer more tempting?  <grin>
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> I've not run any Microsoft code for 49 days.
>     How about you?

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We may write a POV-Ray file parser but it's not planned.

Quote:> There are a few things i'd like to do that pov can't seem to do.
> and althought i think that a procedural shader (for bmrt) could do them,
> one does not yet exist.

What's a procedural shader?

Quote:> I would like to hear form you as your project progresses.

OK, well if you go to www.onelist.com/communities/raytrace you can
subscribe to our mailing list.  That'll bring the total up to 3!!!

Quote:> please don't get discouraged by the lack of voices.
> personally i work better with silence.

Hehe, yeah, I'm used to it.

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Quote:> What's a procedural shader?

its a program that tells the render/raytracer what a surface looks like.
it can be as simple as applying a rastor image to a surface or as
complex as creating a displacement.
it will also describe light, atmosphere, , ,
check the renderman repository for a better explanation
http://www.renderman.org/RMR/

it's a little harder to learn but worth the effort.

Quote:

> OK, well if you go to www.onelist.com/communities/raytrace you can
> subscribe to our mailing list.  That'll bring the total up to 3!!!
6 acctually

> > please don't get discouraged by the lack of voices.
> > personally i work better with silence.

> Hehe, yeah, I'm used to it.

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> I've not run any Microsoft code for 56 days.
>     How about you?
almost 5 years

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Hmm, sounds cool.

Quote:

> > OK, well if you go to www.onelist.com/communities/raytrace you can
> > subscribe to our mailing list.  That'll bring the total up to 3!!!
> 6 acctually

Eh?  I meant subscribers to the raytrace mlist.
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What i was hoping to try was to make a mirror(reflection) shader
and a lens(Refractor) shader. The mirror would be the easier of the two.
it would create a light souce at the point of contact where a previous
light source hit.  the new light would have same orign but the opposite
angle of incedence or some thing like that.

i'm convinced that it can be done i just have not had the time to pursue
it.

althought both povray and bmrt have raytracing in one form or an other,
i can not model a test stand that would show a beam of light(colored)
going through a path of mirrors and prisms.  what started this was when
a friend asked me to test different types of test equipment used to
gauge the quality of home ground mirrors(telescope).

there is a method that i beleive is called a knife blade test.  the idea
was to try variation on it with out the expense of building multipule
test stands.

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