Mate de Vita
Kelli

2008 Oct 4 • 2453
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So, I was reading the article about the pixelmachine the other day. It looks like an interesting thing. But since I don't really know much about these ray tracing programs, I have to ask. How different is it from the povray?

Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse


2007 Oct 19 • 5486
57,583 ₧

Fairly. For instance, povray handles arbitrary geometry; at the moment Pixelmachine makes its own. And I have a feeling it still alters the colour of the squares based on what face of the cube the ray hits. While this is awesome for making the kind of pictures that come out of pixelmachine it is less good for making realistic pictures (which you can sort of do with povray but a better shout is Luxrender).