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  Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 17 Mar 2008 10:11:49
Message: <47de8a35$1@news.povray.org>

> ...you ask POV-Ray to draw a 40 megapixel image, it renders at roughly 2 
> pixels per second, and you calculate how long it will take to render.
> 
> And then feel glad you're sitting down. (!)
> 
> 40 megapixels = 40,000,000 pixels.
> 40,000,000 pixels / 2 pixels/second = 20,000,000 seconds.
> 20,000,000 seconds = 333,333 minutes.
> 333,333 minutes = 5,555 hours.
> 5,555 hours = 231.5 days.
> 

40 megapixel? Hmm how much RAM is it eating? Last time I tried an image 
around that big, POV-Ray crashed.


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