"Alan Holding" wrote:
> 1.    Are any of you planning to release your systems to
>       the great unwashed soon?  (I'd love to beta test if not!)

In my case not too soon because there's so much work left to do.

> 2.  What's the speed of your respective systems like?  How
>     long does it take to parse/render a typical particle scene?

I'm pretty impatient so I usually don't let frames take more than a minute
to parse+render, often much less. That is sometimes on a 1 GHz machine,
other times on a 150 MHz machine.

> 3.  Have any of your tried using non-spherical/non-blob
>     particles?

I have tried using MegaPov glows and also textured discs facing the camera
and in the future I intent to take much more varied approaches.

Rune
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