John M. Dlugosz wrote in message <37d702fb@news.povray.org>...
>Not quite:  the pixels/second number displayed in the status bar of POV-Win
>doesn't take into account supersampling.  A simple scene (the close-up of
>the jar of pencils at http://www.dlugosz.com/POV/dryad_dreams.html about
>half way down the page) was showing 78PPS while working, but was taking 8
>times longer than I would have supposed to finish one row.  Result was
>actually closer to 11 pixels/second of =result= pixels in the final image.


The pixels/second display is a running average for the entire trace, not the
current speed.  As a result, if the first part of the trace went very fast,
then a slow part will be reported as going faster than it really is, and
vice versa.

Mark

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