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3 Aug 2024 22:17:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pixel display - Just curious  
From: Marc Champagne
Date: 9 Oct 2003 21:18:00
Message: <Xns940FD829FD911POVMIKA@204.213.191.226>
"Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in
news:3f85e3d9@news.povray.org: 

> 

> message de 
> news:11ebovccgk1ko4lrc5oejr5fnvjlhkro80@4ax.com... 
>>
>> Not important, I am just curious.
>>
>> Is the current version of POV displaying each pixel after
>> calculation, or holding each pixel in a buffer, and then
>> displaying the entire line?
> 
> In the Windows version, just move the cursor on the slider
> bar and you'll see the pixels crawling.
> It's quite helpful to see the "difficult" areas but it can
> become pretty addictive with slow renders, so I often turn
> off the display just to avoid the temptation... It's sort
> of stupid to shout "go, go, go, you can do it" to a slow
> pixel and then "ha, good boy, you made it" once it's
> rendered. 

That disease seems pretty common then, I can vouch that I do 
have the antibodies for it :) 

-- 
Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, Canada


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