That's too bad Bob, I was looking forward to seeing you finally enter
something in the IRTC.  You'll have to get an early start this round.

I didn't get my own out until 11:59 PDT!  I actually started the final render
about 2 days ago, but I built the whole scene around the Superpatch, and
somehow I came up with something that causes a page fault on 5 out of 600
lines.  I spent all day today doing partial renders to narrow things down to
those 5 lines, then rendered column-by-column to narrow it down to about 500
pixels.

I finally started commenting things out of the scene and rendering that small
space until it would work.  I got all the pixels to render with an hour to go,
then I went about putting the source and text file together.  I was staring at
the clock, pulling out hair as I uploaded the text file and the jpeg with 5
minutes to go!

I narrowed things down enough that I think the problem is with a lathe in the
scene.  I'm going to do some tests to see if I can get things down to one
object causing the problem, test it in the official version, and post whatever
I come up with to either bug reports or povray.programming, depending on
whether or not it happens in both programs.

I sent the zipfile out after the deadline, so I don't know if that's going to
make it.  I had it bounce back at me the first time with a message that it was
over the 3.5 meg limit, which is was, I just didn't know there was a size
limit.  I reduced the size of the image_maps and got it down to 450kb and it
went through.

Sorry for the blab-fest, I still have no acceptence letter, so I'm still a
little nervous.

-Mike

=Bob wrote:

> I just went to get my entry uploaded and glanced at the clock first.
> 2:06am (12:06am PDT), six minutes past the deadline.
> No use, I have it set to Boulder Colorado's atomic clock.
>

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