[Haskell-cafe] Ray tracer

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> ajb at spamcop.net wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
> By "production grade" I don't mean "you can put Pixar to shame", I just mean
> "it's not an experimental research project - it's something designed to
> actually be used by normal users".
> 

Or to put it another way, that the code and UI are appropriate for 
"production grade" software in general, as opposed to a raytracer that's 
suitable for production grade rendering.

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