hi Alain,

On 13/03/2014 00:21, Alain wrote:
> You should go straight to version 3.7. That way, you won't need to
> UNlearn some of those "ropes"...

hmm, are you saying that the syntax for /existing/ SDL statements has
changed from 3.6 to 3.7?

> It's somewhat faster, can take advantage of all cores on modern
> computer, have several bug fixes, introduce some new features like
> subsurface light transport and high dynamic range images as source
> and output option.
> It also have some improvements for focal blur and antialiasing.
> The irid code is totaly redone as it was broken in version 3.6 ...

I might (for now) miss out on bug fixes and new features, but that's ok
for a learner; wrt multiple cores - I run Povray on a VM which is
limited to 'see' 1 cpu and 1G RAM.

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