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  Re: Focal blur experiment (~45k)  
From: Andrew C on Mozilla
Date: 10 Jul 2004 03:43:13
Message: <40ef9e11$1@news.povray.org>
> I was very much aware of that, but either way, running on one of two 
> Opterons (with all the system overhead moved to the other) and a gig of 
> ram sure beats the 866Mhz CPU and 256Megs of RAM on my other system. 
> This way I can have it running in the background while still having a 
> normal system (as this is my main box) I can even play UT2004 whithout 
> losing much speed on POV-Ray :-D

*Drool*

> (I also think it is using all that ram because of all the reflections in 
> the glass and because I don't know how to use radiosity right :P)

Reflections shouldn't make much odds. (Calculated completely seperately 
for each individual ray.) Radiosity might - not sure how it stores all 
those lovely samples it takes...

Andrew @ home.


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