[Radiance-general] Re: opengl and mac

[Rob Guglielmetti]

pillo wrote:
> i just want to add some news: it works!!!!!
> my mac: ibook (ati 128 8Mb) + jaguar 10.2.4 + X11beta3
> just opened the folder ray/obj/cabin and launched 'make nholo' on the 
> terminal
> as you can see the make file refers to rholo OGL based.

Thanks Pillo!  I just upgraded to Beta3, and the cabin scene is twirling 
around on my Power Book right now.

It is fascinating to watch the image refine interractively like this. 
It's really instructive; in a way it helps me understand how the whole 
ray tracing process works, much in the same manner as watching 
Lightscape process a radiosity solution helps one understand the 
radiosity method.  For example, it's interesting to see how after you 
zoom in on an already refined area, the diffuse materials get to reuse a 
lot of the samples, whereas the specular ones have to start over. 
Watching the subtle shading effects we have become accustomed to seeing 
in Radiance images slowly bubble up from what is initially a crude, 
pointillistic rendering, is truly fascinating to observe.

Well, I find it interesting. =8-)

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      Rob Guglielmetti

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