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Re: POV-Ray dropship
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:19:14 GMT
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jsproat@#NoMoreSpam#geocities.com
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Bram Lambrecht wrote:
Looks great!  But, how long did it take to render that sky?  Please continue
raytracing; your models deserve a closer-to-life presentation than LDraw
output.

Thanks everyone for the kind words!  :-,

Lessee -- on a P2-400 with 196 Mb RAM, rendering at 320 x 200 (I'm too lazy
to get real benchmarks right now, plus my boss is hovering around my office
right now :-) with an AA of .3, the sky alone takes 52 seconds.  The entire
scene takes 1 minute 49 seconds.  I'm assuming that one can extrapolate that
to figure how long a 1024 x 768 rendering will take -- there are roughly 12
times as many pixels in the larger image.

I'll be adding terrain to the scene soon, using Terragen.  This is way fun!

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder"
-- British scientist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)



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  Re: POV-Ray dropship
 
(...) Is there a quick way to import Terragen landscapes into POV other than cutting & pasting the image? If there is, does it render slower or faster than Terragen? --Bram (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: POV-Ray dropship
 
(...) raytracing; your models deserve a closer-to-life presentation than LDraw output. --Bram (25 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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