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Re: 3D Worlds


Wayne Morellini writes:

 > I'll check this out sometime too, have either of you two heard about point 
 > of veiw renders?  I saw a newspaper cliiping once that implied they were 

AltaVista is mute on that, but it sounds like raycasting. There is
lots of stuff, octrees, splatting etc. Try Philippe Lacroute's
Ph.D. thesis for a nice review on the topic.

 > very conservative on cpu performance and were menat to be used for internet 
 > rendering (I think it was some Australian university doing it).