Some new images after I implemented kd-tree which is working quite well now.

A simple city with DOF:



And the Stanford Dragon, in silver and in greenish glass:

Core 2 Quad processors had a price cut yesterday: http://www.intc.com/priceList.cfm For example: Q9650 - $316 Q9550 - $266 Very appealing if you already have S775 setup. Many (most?) of those can be overclocked to 4GHz or beyond with air cooling. That makes them pretty good alternatives for i7 proce...

Yeah, if off-topic isn't on-topic on off-topic, then what is?? :lol: This is how I do it now on spherical light: 1. Choose a random point on the sphere. (Actually only on the surface that could be visible) 2. Take a radiance reading from that point if it is really visible. 3. Scale the value based o...

Hi all! A short story about me. I've using POVRay since late 80's. This year I decided to learn some C++ and programmed a simple physics simulator. Yeah, it worked but was a bit boring. Then I read POVRay forums and noticed a few posts about path tracing (someone there made a patch to convert POVRay...