[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of raytance, the real time raytracer.

[henry . precheur]

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Henry Prêcheur <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
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Package: raytance, the real time raytracer.
System name: raytance
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
Raytance is a real-time ray-tracer.
The main goal is to provide a fast visualization of 3D primitives and more 
complex objects, using the ray-tracing algorithm.
Raytance will feature things like shader and animation system too. We are 
currently thinking about the way to do that in the best way, so nothing is 
determined precisely for now.
To do that in real time, raytance uses severals optimizations, like octrees and 
sub-patch sampling. During the development many tests will be done, and we will 
try to choose the best algorithms, and techniques to allow a fast visualization 
with a good quality of image.
Raytance is provided with external tools to allow users to easily create scenes 
for it, and with a SDK to allow developers to integrate raytance in externals 
projects.
For now the development is at the beginning, we hope that we will be able to 
show something before the month of august 2002.


Other Software Required:
raytance requires:
OpenGL 1.2 compatible graphic system (hardware acceleration is strongly 
recommended)
libXML 2.
raytance\'s external tools may also requires non-free SDK (3D Studio MAX), we 
will try to take advantage of free modelers later in the development.

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