[fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu May 18 15:53:46 CEST 2017



On Thu, 18 May 2017, Reimar Grabowski wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2017 14:52:25 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> > Why do you have to *calculate* *all*? 
>> 
>> Because you want to create an image ? That's what a ray-tracer does AFAIK.
> But raytracing isn't the subject here and never was.
> Graemes raycasting isn't the subject here either.

Yes, it was.

The complaint of Graeme was that a FPC ray tracer is much slower slower than an 
equivalent raytracer in Java. All the rest are diversions from the original subject.

Michael.




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