Hi group,

I don't know wether I've stumbled upon something previously unknown here, but the next
time you are tracing an image with radiosity enabled, click and hold your left mouse
button on the slider to the right of the editor as the radiosity pass is being
calculated.
I get a MASSIVE speed up! For example, before, on a 320x240 image, it took 1 minute
and 8
seconds to calculate. Using my *click 'n' hold* method, it took just 14
seconds!!!!!!!!!
This may well be a Windows only *feature*, or maybe it's just on my machine, or maybe
I'm
going insane and imagining it all, but it certainly seems to work with no ill effects.

Let me know what you think.

Andy
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and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk

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You're not the first one to discover this; it was already discussed
somewhere (don't exactly remember which group/thread). It thad sth. to
do about Windows incorrectly updating the progress indicator during
mosaic preview.
So it's still possible that you're sane ;)

Margus

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I don't know wether I've stumbled upon something previously unknown here, but the
next
> time you are tracing an image with radiosity enabled, click and hold your left mouse
> button on the slider to the right of the editor as the radiosity pass is being
calculated.
> I get a MASSIVE speed up! For example, before, on a 320x240 image, it took 1 minute
and 8
> seconds to calculate. Using my *click 'n' hold* method, it took just 14
seconds!!!!!!!!!
> This may well be a Windows only *feature*, or maybe it's just on my machine, or
maybe I'm
> going insane and imagining it all, but it certainly seems to work with no ill
effects.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Andy
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk

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This is what I do.

1) Close the window when it's doing the radiosity.
2) Click 'Show' when you see the numbers telling you it's actually raytracing.
3) Wait a (long) while.

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Scroll up a little to the subject 'radiosity patch' for the location of
an executable that fixes this or check out the thread 'anyone up to
testing' in povray.programming.

-Mike

Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I don't know wether I've stumbled upon something previously unknown here, but the
next
> time you are tracing an image with radiosity enabled, click and hold your left mouse
> button on the slider to the right of the editor as the radiosity pass is being
calculated.
> I get a MASSIVE speed up! For example, before, on a 320x240 image, it took 1 minute
and 8
> seconds to calculate. Using my *click 'n' hold* method, it took just 14
seconds!!!!!!!!!
> This may well be a Windows only *feature*, or maybe it's just on my machine, or
maybe I'm
> going insane and imagining it all, but it certainly seems to work with no ill
effects.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Andy
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk

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I've noticed this on the Mac version. I think that by clicking repeatedly or holding
the mouse
down, you get the processor to focus on POV-Ray and ignore the rest, because even in
Tyrannical mode it lets the processor work with other applications. That's just my
guess tho.
I gave up on programming years ago.

Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom
www.spiritone.com/~english

Andrew Cocker wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> I don't know wether I've stumbled upon something previously unknown here, but the
next
> time you are tracing an image with radiosity enabled, click and hold your left mouse
> button on the slider to the right of the editor as the radiosity pass is being
calculated.
> I get a MASSIVE speed up! For example, before, on a 320x240 image, it took 1 minute
and 8
> seconds to calculate. Using my *click 'n' hold* method, it took just 14
seconds!!!!!!!!!
> This may well be a Windows only *feature*, or maybe it's just on my machine, or
maybe I'm
> going insane and imagining it all, but it certainly seems to work with no ill
effects.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Andy
> --------------------------
> and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk

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