I'm still wondering that such a simple questions bears such a vivid thread.
As I'm using POVRay on my linux box I can't say much how long it takes 
to load the splash screen and how long it is shown. But once you have 
fired it up you can render as much as you want without seeing the splash 
screen again.
If you stumble over yourself by starting POVRay over and over again, and 
that over a slow net connection, you don't deserve to see the splash 
screen each time. Continous scene animations can be done even with 
complex camera motions with arrays of positions and orientations  or 
just simple splines and the <clock> or <frame> statement.
It is just admissible to honor the people that worked on and coded 
POVRay and to remind people what amazing piece of software they gave us, 
and that for free.

... dave

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