Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Again I've been travelling a bit, so there has
> been little time for POV-ing. But I started a
> couple of re-renderings of some of my old
> objects before I left.
> 
> This is a radiosity version of my "Rotational
> iso-noise" (that I posted here back in Dec.-00)
> 
> I took more than 2 days to render at a 200 MHz
> Pentium PC.
> 

Isosurfaces and radiosity are indeed a dangerous combination.  If you use
a pigment function instead of noise3d things could even be much worse.

See for example:
http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/pov/iso_rock_01.jpg

which took 7 days with very poor radiosity settings.

Anyway Povray 3.5 will hopefully improve things...

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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