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  11. Subject: Re: LW rendering method 
  12. In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 16 Dec 94 20:59:28 +0200.
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  14. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 13:23:30 EST
  15. From: Mark Thompson <mark@hubbub.westford.ccur.com>
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  20. Anders Lattermann <Anders_Lattermann@p24.anet.bbs.bad.se> wtites:
  21. > Anyone care to explain what rendering method LW uses? I read,
  22. > a long time ago, that it is not using real raytracing?
  23.                                         ^^^^
  24. So what is fake ray-tracing? LW has a hybrid renderer that supports both
  25. a scanline based rendering and raytracing in the same image.
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