Re: shadows...

Gavin Bell ([email protected])
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 19:26:13 -0800


> >Does vrml support shadow casting?
>
> VRML doesn't have any support for shadows.
...
> Any thoughts folks?

VRML doesn't need any more support for shadows, in my opinion. There's
nothing stopping a browser from showing shadowed VRML worlds today, except
that nobody knows how to do it fast enough to make it worthwhile.

The VRML spec doesn't _require_ shadows to be generated (that would be
stupid, it is WAY too slow), but it doesn't _prevent_ them from being
generated, either.

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