POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : bubbles : Re: bubbles Server Time: 9 Jan 2009 09:42:06 GMT
  Re: bubbles  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 7 Feb 2006 07:12:49
Wasn't it Stefan Viljoen who wrote:
>Joanne Simpson spake:
>
>> found these lovely bubbles on the way to something completely different
>
>Rendering time? I'm busy with something similar, and it as been running
>1000+ hours...

Have you read my bubbles tutorial?

There's a trick that can increase the rendering speed of bubbles by a
factor of about 60 if your slow method involves taking the difference of
a large number of bubble objects from inside a transparent container.

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/holetut/holes3.htm

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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