"Chris Cason" <new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>> detail portion. Instead of 1/10th of the area it may now be 1/25th
>
> Correction: I should have said 1/100th of the area. Sorry for the
> confusion.
>

I knew it was going to be a mistake to model each grain of sand 
independently... (jk)

So...  Without doing good calculations, I think that would be something like 
4800 x 3600 if entirely rendered at that resolution (with 4:3 aspect ratio), 
which would make a good "huge" Zazzle poster, and doesn't seem all that 
unreasonable to do (20 days at 10pps).

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Jeremy
www.beantoad.com