this is a modified version of the area light problem i had.
on a PII400 parsing time was 1:40min. rendering time of one line took 
1:58min on 640x480. therefore i cancelled it and went to a friend's 1ghz 
athlon. rendertime with radisoity and AA0.0 then: six hours and eight 
minutes. 
memory usage: ~105mb in peak.

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I absolutely love that!!
Would you mind sharing the soarce?
I'd like to render it for my background image.

Gary

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> this is a modified version of the area light problem i had.
> on a PII400 parsing time was 1:40min. rendering time of one line took
> 1:58min on 640x480. therefore i cancelled it and went to a friend's 1ghz
> athlon. rendertime with radisoity and AA0.0 then: six hours and eight
> minutes.
> memory usage: ~105mb in peak.

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Great stuff! Could you by any chance be so kind as to post the source for the
bricks?

Thanks,

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> this is a modified version of the area light problem i had.
> on a PII400 parsing time was 1:40min. rendering time of one line took
> 1:58min on 640x480. therefore i cancelled it and went to a friend's 1ghz
> athlon. rendertime with radisoity and AA0.0 then: six hours and eight
> minutes.
> memory usage: ~105mb in peak.


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marabou wrote:
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> on a PII400 parsing time was 1:40min. rendering time of one line took
> 1:58min on 640x480. therefore i cancelled it and went to a friend's 1ghz
> athlon. rendertime with radisoity and AA0.0 then: six hours and eight
> minutes.
> memory usage: ~105mb in peak.

I'm assuming it went into swap on your pc but not on the athlon, 'cause
that's a huge difference...

Looks Quakish to me, the color seems unnatural but otherwise it is
realistic I think.

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the bricks are superellipsoids only.

#local counter_h = 0;
#local counter_w = 0;
#while (counter_h <= numberofstones_height)
        #while (counter_w <= numberofstones_width)
                superellipsoid { +yourflavour+ }
                translate <(counter_w*width_ofonestone),0,
                        (counter_h*height_ofstone)>
                #local counter_w = counter_w + 1;
        #end //while2
        #local counter_w = 0;
        #local counter_h = counter_h + 1;
#end //while1

this would build a floor for you.
if you wish to make it a wall you can rotate the field on the x-axis with 
"rotate x*90". or/and translate this field to a place where it fits best.

good luck.

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