Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ray tracer

ajb@spamcop.net wrote:

G'day all.

Quoting Andrew Coppin :

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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".