Hi everyone, We have recently had two papers on our RTRT research accepted on graphics conferences. If you are interested you find them now online at ...
Philipp Slusallek
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Jun 1, 2001 12:23 pm
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Hi I subscriped to this mailing list one month ago as nothing happened since, I think I make my introduction anyway. As a normal introduction is boring, I...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 1, 2001 12:24 pm
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Hi ... I hope so because I posted an introduction mail a few weeks ago but it seems it didn't get through. So I'll try it again maybe it works. And of course I...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 1, 2001 12:24 pm
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... I looked it 10 times, but those reflections don't happen to convince me. It looks like you have "approximated" the reflected ray direction with the surface...
Marco *PaN* Foco
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Jun 1, 2001 1:09 pm
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... The lower sphere keeps doing odd things. It disappears and comes back a little bit at a time. Or perhaps part of it thinks it's in shadow? Anyway, what I...
Paul Kahler
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Jun 1, 2001 5:56 pm
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Hi Marco ... Wow 10 times that's quite often. :) ... Hmm well I'm using R = 2N-V (where V is the Viewing direction and N is the normal at the point) as...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 1, 2001 7:17 pm
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Hi ... Great I'm really looking forward to your presentation next thursday in Stuttgart. :) EOF, J.D. -- Realtime Raytracer in JAVA ...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 1, 2001 7:39 pm
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Hello everyone! I see that newcomers tend to write some self-introduction, so I guess this is what I'll do. I'm a university student, and quite a beginner....
Gyimesi Gergely Mate
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Jun 1, 2001 7:45 pm
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Actually, the equation to reflect a ray given a surface normal is R=V-2(N dot V)N. There's also a halfway vector, but you're not doing that either :). By the...
vlad andreev
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Jun 2, 2001 1:42 pm
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As Greg said, it seems that newcomers here tend to write an introduction... so in case you are interested, my name is Sean Carter and I'm a junior at the...
the_falling_frog@...
Jun 2, 2001 1:43 pm
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Oh, I should hasten to add that VRML is not raytracing -- it uses fake lighting tricks to speed the rendering. I am very interested in some sort of...
Miriam English
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Jun 2, 2001 1:54 pm
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Hi Joachim, ... <snip> No worries, I tried using Internet Explorer and it works fine. Very cool demo. Pity about Microsoft polluting Java with non-standard...
Miriam English
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Jun 2, 2001 1:56 pm
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... Hi Ingo, I don't have any terribly good scenes of my own -- most of my stuff is owned by the people I have worked for -- but I can point you to some ...
Miriam English
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Jun 2, 2001 2:10 pm
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Hi Vlad ... Hmmm yep looks a bit different to my equation :). Than something is wrong in the textbook I looked it up from. Thanks! ... I know there is the...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 2, 2001 3:52 pm
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Rough unedited version of the FAQ, soon to come again updated. Please have patience but my time is very limited lately. Still it seems there was need for it. ...
wally@...
Jun 2, 2001 4:09 pm
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... The one looks good, having just skimmed it over. "Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray-Tracing" talks about some caching schemes for ray tracing on a...
Eric Haines
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Jun 2, 2001 4:59 pm
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... i just updated the web pages. the images and movies from the papers are now also online. just follow the 'gallery' link under each paper... due to very...
wald@...
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Jun 4, 2001 5:48 pm
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... I think that's just a matter of VRML viewers... As far as I know the VRML standard defines only the way of parsing the script, and not the way of rendering...
Marco *PaN!* Foco
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Jun 6, 2001 2:39 pm
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Hey, I'm new to the list, but I've written a basic non real-time raytracer and a few realtime terrain engines based on raycasting. From everything I've read so...
Alex J. Champandard
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Jun 6, 2001 4:42 pm
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Ehlo Marco ... Not even that, it's just a format descriping a scenegraph/geometries/appearance and behaviours that's all. Theoretically you can raytrace VRML...
Joachim Diepstraten
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Jun 6, 2001 6:22 pm
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For those who missed it, Havran's thesis is now online. I'd like to see more and more works like this one, there's still a lot to do in the ray shooting field....
wally@...
Jun 6, 2001 6:53 pm
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... getting raytracing in real-time seems to me adaptive refinement. Now the heuristics I've read so far decide if the object hit by neighbouring rays is the...
Marco *PaN!* Foco
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Jun 7, 2001 11:17 am
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... hmm. on scenes with the 'raytrace-look' hashing the ray-tree is pretty efficient. (there are a couple of intros using this trick..) ...
Jarno A Wuolijoki
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Jun 7, 2001 5:40 pm
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... Actually I only used a cache of eye-shot rays... but I like this... I think I'll try this ASAP. ... Uh-oh... So you're THAT Jarno ;) I'll be @asm again...
Marco *PaN!* Foco
pan@...
Jun 11, 2001 2:21 pm
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Hi, Quick question. consider a point P is written as a column vector tranformed by a 4x4 T using the equation P'= TP. Now take a plane equation and represent...
Paul Kahler
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Jul 5, 2001 7:01 pm
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If I recall correctly, to transform a plane you need to transform the 4x1 vector (representing the plane equation coefficients) by the transpose of the inverse...
Mark Wayland
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Jul 9, 2001 9:30 am
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Just in time for Friday afternoon, when there's no time to start a new project: http://www.raytracingnews.org/rtnv14n1.html The Ray Tracing News, volume 14...
Eric Haines
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Aug 10, 2001 1:19 am
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Hello, I just thought I'd announce a RTRT project a friend and I have been working on. It's a chess game with a ray traced display. Not available for public...
Paul Kahler
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Aug 21, 2001 7:42 am
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So well, Siggraph is over. What about this year? Ofcourse of major interest to us was the Interactive RT course organized by Slusallek and featuring also...
Piero Foscari
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Aug 23, 2001 9:17 am
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I think the problem wasn't speed but getting the geometry or photon map to fit into the memory of a single machine. Their approach was interesting in that it...
