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- Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
- From: Rayshade Construction Co. <rayshade@weedeater.math.YALE.EDU>
- Subject: v21i003: rayshade - A raytracing package for UNIX, Part00/19
- Message-ID: <csm-v21i003=rayshade.233106@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
- X-Md4-Signature: 046dae10a8b87aa8644fb1d29c9143c4
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1991 04:32:04 GMT
- Approved: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com
-
- Submitted-by: Rayshade Construction Co. <rayshade@weedeater.math.YALE.EDU>
- Posting-number: Volume 21, Issue 3
- Archive-name: rayshade/part00
- Environment: UNIX, !16BIT
-
- The following 19 shar files contain Rayshade 4.0, a raytracing package
- for Un*x machines. This version is extremely different from 3.0, and
- is very different from 4.0beta.
-
- Rayshade 4.0 features include:
- + Eleven primitives (blob, box, cone, cylinder, height field,
- plane, polygon, sphere, torus, flat- and Phong-shaded triangle)
- + Aggregate objects
- + Constructive solid geometry
- + Point, directional, extended, spot, and quadrilateral light sources
- + Solid procedural texturing, bump mapping, and
- 2D "image" texture mapping
- + Antialiasing through variable-rate "jittered" sampling
- + Arbitrary linear transformations on objects and texture/bump maps.
- + Use of uniform spatial subdivision or hierarchy of bounding
- volumes to speed rendering
- + Options to facilitate rendering of stereo pairs
- + Rudimentary animation support and motion blur
- + Numerous bug fixes and syntax changes
-
- Apologies to all the folks who felt that their Rayshade 4.0beta
- questions were not handled in a timely fashion. Both Rod and Craig
- have had to deal with Real Life and did not have as much time for
- Rayshade as we had hoped. We still feel that Rayshade is the best
- Un*x raytracing package for the price.
-
- Rayshade 4.0 is available via anonymous ftp from
- weedeater.math.yale.edu (130.132.23.17) in pub/rayshade.4.0.
- The shar files will be posted to alt.sources and submitted to
- comp.sources.misc.
-
- Craig Kolb
- Rod Bogart
- rayshade@weedeater.math.yale.edu
-
- exit 0 # Just in case...
-