"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> POV-Bench is probably the place to have a look around at:
> http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.htm

Some times very confusing,
because maybe not at all entries
is declared, that more than one
CPU is used.

But fascinating.

I did first time raytraceing 1992 with DKB
to make some pictures for my book.

http://www.pege.org/gemini/dkb.htm

I borwoed a 486/33 because my
ATARI TT was so slow. Only one picture
with the ATARI, because of the 640 kb
limit in MS-DOS. I think 1:3 was the
486/33 faster.

1994 Dr.Weigel from ARS Electronica
invited me. He told me, that I have
1 week and a team of experts
in his institute for new media
in Frankfurt to make a movie about
the city of the future.

But it was much different :-)

I arrived in Frankfurt and they just
told me: Here is the computer
(a Silicon Graphic) and here is the
manual. It was not possible to make
all I want in this week, so I looked
for shareware and discovered POV
as newer version of DKB.

I created 1994 a 20 second video for
television. A part rendered on my
486 DX2/66 notebook but most
pictures on the pentium 90 of a friend.

My notebook would have used 500
hours by 1 hour per picture in
768 * 576 for television

http://www.pege.org/gemini/pov.htm
( a house turning after the sun)

The video was several times in Austrian
television and also on 3 SAT in the
broadcast "Mit der Kraft der Sonne"
(With the power of the sun)

Question: is there a history about
first television broadcast with POV
generated pictures?

I wanted to create a video about a city
in the future. But I discovered that
I need a solution for the shadow areas.
An array of 9*9 light sources was the
solution, but 1 picture in TV quality
was now 20 hours.

http://www.pege.org/gemini/villageh.htm

A calculation showed
20 hours * 25 pictures per second
* 300 seconds gives 150000 hours
on my notebook or 50000 hours on
a Pentium 90.

But when I look in the benchmark
on the top results about 250 times
faster than an old P90, the whole
video could be in only 200 hours.

It's frustrating, I have just right now
no time for it, but I hope next year,
I can invest some month in my
city of the future video project.


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