MicroBot Design Disk
30-Nov-88 18:42:43
Sb: #7013-MicroBot Design Disk
Fm: Stan Kalisher (Impulse) 76004,1767
To: Steven Bennett 70046,441
Steve – Octrees are simply a method of subdividing the screen into 64000
cubes (ram permitting). The triangles are then dispersed through the
Octvolumes, effectively allowing our triangle intersector routines to deal
with the volumes independantly. If there are no triangles in any specific
volume, (like the sky) the tracer whips through it to the next volume.
Using true Octree subdivison as Turbo Silver does, is one of the reasons
(There are others) why TSilver is considerably faster that the other folks
out there. < — Stan