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12 Aug 2024 13:17:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Try this...a new discovery?  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 1 Feb 1999 08:32:02
Message: <36B5ABD2.91DA0424@peak.edu.ee>
You're not the first one to discover this; it was already discussed
somewhere (don't exactly remember which group/thread). It thad sth. to
do about Windows incorrectly updating the progress indicator during
mosaic preview.
So it's still possible that you're sane ;)

Margus

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I don't know wether I've stumbled upon something previously unknown here, but the
next
> time you are tracing an image with radiosity enabled, click and hold your left mouse
> button on the slider to the right of the editor as the radiosity pass is being
calculated.
> I get a MASSIVE speed up! For example, before, on a 320x240 image, it took 1 minute
and 8
> seconds to calculate. Using my *click 'n' hold* method, it took just 14
seconds!!!!!!!!!
> This may well be a Windows only *feature*, or maybe it's just on my machine, or
maybe I'm
> going insane and imagining it all, but it certainly seems to work with no ill
effects.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Andy
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk


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