POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.scene-files : Systema Metropolis: In the Wild : Re: Systema Metropolis: In the Wild Server Time
28 Sep 2024 19:38:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Systema Metropolis: In the Wild  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 11 Feb 2008 18:03:26
Message: <47b0d43e@news.povray.org>

>  From the 7z manual:
> 
> "pass={NumPasses}
>     Sets number of passes for Deflate encoder. It can be in range from 1 
> to 15 for Deflate and from 1 to 10 for BZip2. Usually big number gives a 
> little bit better compression ratio and slower compression process."
> 
> As it turns out, the correct flag was -mpass=15, and it makes 
> compression take significantly longer without noticeably reducing the 
> file size (nearly double the time for a 0.1% size improvement).
> 

Sounds like increasing isosurface accuracy, antialiasing recursion 
level, max_trace_level to numbers where you don't see the extra 
reflections anyway, etc. :)


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