Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ray tracer

Dan Piponi wrote:

On 7/14/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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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.)

I'm not very hopeful about writing a "production-grade" ray tracer completely in Haskell. In my experience, "production-grade" rendering is always banging up on the limit of how much RAM you have on your machine.

It seems everybody misunderstands what I mean by "production-grade". I only meant that the program actually works properly and has some usable documentation. ;-)