Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> 
> I would have to render the image at 16200x10200
> 
> Now, on the fastest single CPU I have, said image takes a day to render at
> 1024x768
> 
> How long would it take to render the poster size image (that is more than 10
> times bigger) ?

About 210 times as long.  This is not specific to POV-Ray, it is the 
same for any other raytracer (so much for 'povray doesn't scale').

> Far to long, especially if you concider that its easy to make an image that
> takes longer than a day to render at desktop resolutions. 
> 
> And all this assumes that I will only have to render said poster sized image
> once, how do I keep a client who wants to see a series of proofs and make
> changes - tell them it could take months because povray doesn't scale!
> 
> "POV is not a suitable tool" and "simply isn't practical" are very clearly
> valid statements.

Please reread what i wrote about it.  You write that you can't use tools 
that distribute a render via file system for reasons specific to your 
situation but you generally say "for professional print work, ... , POV 
is not a suitable tool" a few sentences later.  I don't want to get 
personal here but this to me seems quite clearly either ignorant or 
malicious.

Christoph

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