[Radiance-general] radiance speed question

[Peter Apian-Bennewitz]

Lars Grobe wrote:

>...
> 
>Of course, radiance is not an easy renderer, but you get lots 
>of very powerful tools for cad-import, image processing, previews 
>and scripting tools. 
>
PovRay is unkown to me, but I liked Rayshade a lot more for 
just-image-rendering in terms of first-time handling and ease.  PovRay 
may be more monolithic and canned-feature rich. Using Radiance's suite 
of programs without practice is like navigating a race car through a 
pedestrian area. Otherwise it's quite powerful, although RenderMan seems 
to have an even more powerful functional language.
Greg developped the core on a Sun 68040 machine years ago, so Radiance's 
raytracing engine had to be nicely optimized.

-Peter

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