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  Re: hypothetical question...  
From: Ken
Date: 4 Feb 1999 02:17:58
Message: <36B94973.4EF680BA@pacbell.net>
Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> hehehe I hope... but Quantum computers are such a GIANT leap forward,
> that I don't think we can conceive of a rendering application that would
> take long enough to bother one...Current computers would take 1000's of
> years to crack RSA encryption...With quantum computers cracking it in
> under and hour (I remember 20 minutes vaguely, and someone else posted
> 11 seconds) the jump is incredible... Have you ever started a 1000 year
> render?  I don't think so... (except maybe that one Spider sent... it
> never did finish the bounding boxes on my computer)
> 
> Steve

The 1000 year render is the one that renders every cell in the
human body - one by one. You can watch as a real person grows
from initial conception (tee hee) to birth of the finish form.

-- 
Ken Tyler

tyl### [at] pacbellnet


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