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8 Oct 2024 21:08:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Largest POV image?  
From: Warp
Date: 22 Oct 2009 17:28:06
Message: <4ae0ce66@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> So far, I haven't seen any significant exceptions to the rule-of-thumb 
> that render time is proportional to the number of pixels.

  I'm sure once could artificially construct a scene which renders fast
at one resolution but extremely slow if you make the resolution even
slightly larger (by having some extremely-slow-to-render detail be so
small that no ray hits it at the lower resolution).

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                                                          - Warp


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