dont know much about programming will study soon but have so many questions...i was recently researching voxels and see some advantages, i noticed that they are like bitmaps but with a third dimension, so wouldnt this be true if all voxels didnt have color wouldnt the file be smaller as opposed to a voxel model with color (like a bitmap)?...so ray tracing, wouldnt a render be quicker if a ray tracer engine didnt compute color values...then used some algorithm the put color back into the image after rendering it?
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Jump to PostRaytracing doesn't take a long time because it's working out colour, it's because of the quantity of light calculations that need to be performed.
If it were as simple as you thought someone would have done that by now ;)
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