In article <3af29a80@news.povray.org>, war### [at] tagpovrayorg says...
> Rich <SrP### [at] ricoswebcom> wrote:
> :   Woohoo!  This option works great!  Replacing the spheres in my scene with 
> : the bounded dodecahedrons resulted in a 1h13m render, versus 1h2m render 
> : for spheres, and 17h30m render for unbounded dodecahedrons.  I can't 
> : believe the difference bounding makes in this case.
> 
>   Don't yet discard triangle meshes completely. With them that same scene
> will probably render in 10 minutes or something like that...
> 
>   (I have rendered a scene with more than 300 millions of triangles at
> 800x600 with antialiasing and it took a bit more than 1 minute to render
> in this Ultra5, which is about the same speed as an P-II 400MHz.)

How on earth was it possible to render such a monster model in 1 minute ? 
I have a mesh of approximately 1 million smooth triangles which takes a 
long time to render, mainly because of the long parse time (the file 
containing the triangles is approximately 150 MB). Is the parse time not 
included in the 1 minute time ? And doesn't this also require a *lot* of 
memory ? I'd love to be able to render bigger stuff than my 1 million 
triangles; they are a 'subsampled' version of the original model in order 
to get acceptable speed.

Bjorn Jonsson / bjj### [at] zzzmmediais
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