From: "Edmund Horner" <edmund1 AT geocities DOT com>
To: "licaon" <licaon AT go DOT ro>, <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Raytracing
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:05:44 +1200
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My advice would be, start simple!  Your first program would preferably not
even display the image, just calculate it and save it as a PCX or something.
(But if you're using Allegro, I guess it's not much work to display it just
before you save it...)

The simplest shape is probably a sphere.  So when you shoot your ray out of
every pixel, you only need to do a sphere intersection.  The colour of the
pixel depends on what part of the sphere you hit.

Anyway, I'm probably not being much help, am I?

> EH> Well, I guess the pov-ray source would be too big to
> EH> start on.
> i have those sources...what's next....hmmm???
>
> EH> But you will need to know quite a bit about rays and
> EH> their intersections with objects.  As well as how
> EH> lighting works.
> so...i wanted some direction (on the web)....