[Haskell-cafe] Ray tracer

ajb at spamcop.net ajb at spamcop.net
Sun Jul 15 02:46:11 EDT 2007


G'day all.

Quoting Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>:

> The "Haskell ray tracer" seems to be a pretty standard and widely-used
> example program. But has anybody ever seriously tried to make a
> "production-grade" implementation? (I.e., one that is user-friendly,
> efficient, and with lots of functionallity.)

Speaking as an ex-VFX head, there are very few "production-grade"
renderers out there, and of those, very few are primarily ray tracers,
and of those, almost none are what most would consider "user-friendly".

So you've set the bar quite high there.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage


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