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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 07:25:47
Message: <3CD3C50C.C40360A6@gmx.de>
Nope, you're plain wrong. POV-Ray, for the actual
calculations it does, is plain fast. Though 3D-Modelling
software like Cinema4D or 3DStudioMax render
faster, its actually only rendering, not tracing.

Though I agree that you cannot really say too fast (nothing
can be too fast... hm. Well, okay, there are some things
that should go slower/take longer), you're "stuff" is
probably something which those ordinary 3D-Software
programms cannot handle...

Alastair Murray wrote:

> If anyone out there think POV-Ray is too fast I've got plenty of stuff to
> give them that would prove them wrong :-D
>
> "Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
> news:3CD3A11C.37D84A8C@gmx.de...
> >
> >
> > Chris Cason wrote:
> > >
> > > Did anyone ever read the docs for the newish 'Duty Cycle' feature
> > > in POVWIN, and wonder why specifically I put it in ?
> > >
> > > Did you wonder perhaps that there was a specific reason ?
> >
> > If i should guess, maybe someone complained POV-Ray is too fast... ;-)
> >
> > Christoph
> >
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From: Hugo
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 07:50:55
Message: <3cd3cb1f$1@news.povray.org>
> Did you wonder perhaps that there was a specific reason ?

I did read the docs, and found a pretty good explanation that I just
accepted.. I don't have a laptop but I assume the duty cycle is a nice
feature for those modern cpu's, cause they're pretty hot.. Now tell me, does
it really have anything to do with shuttles and space??  It's cold up there
so I guess you're just kidding.

Regards,
Hugo


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From: Marc Jacquier
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 08:13:30
Message: <3cd3d06a@news.povray.org>
Hi,
It's indeed cold OUT in space, though you can't measure a proper temperature
(which is caused by molecular flickering -don't know English proper word-
and you can find only few molecules up there (try to catch one and ask it
"Oh eerr hrrum could you tell me err what temper..." it's far away yet)
Of course you can measure an solid object ( say eeeeeeeeer a CPU oh yes
!!:)) temperature.
But the point is the computer is IN the station where the temperature is
more than comfortable (they aren't wearing parkas are they?)
More: in zero gravity, no convection, and if no fan on cpu, the cooling can
be an issue.
Marc

3cd3cb1f$1@news.povray.org...
>Now tell me, does it really have anything to do with shuttles and space??
It's cold up there
> so I guess you're just kidding.
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
>


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From: Tony[B]
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 11:06:43
Message: <3cd3f903@news.povray.org>
> bingo.
>
> as we sit in front of our computers, a copy of POV-Ray 3.5 is whizzing
> above our heads in the International Space Station (courtesy of Mark
> Shuttleworth).

Ooooh. That's just too cool! I wonder how exclusive we are as far as
rendering software used in space... I can imagine Lightwave being up
there... NASA has used it for visualizations before.


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 11:42:21
Message: <3cd4015d$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3cd3825e$1@news.povray.org> , "Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>From: "Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom>
>Newsgroups: povray.general
>References: <3cd37738@news.povray.org>
>Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 02:35:32 -0400

Please correct you system date it is annoying to have threaded views mess-up
because of it in some newsreaders!

    Thorsten

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 18:56:56
Message: <3cd46738@news.povray.org>
Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> nothing can be too fast...

  Yes, there can be.
  Ever played those ancient DOS games with no time sync (ie. the ones made
assuming the speed of the computer is always the same)?-)

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From: Brian Elliott
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 4 May 2002 23:31:29
Message: <MPG.173f448db2822ac4989685@news.povray.org>
In article <3cd3f903@news.povray.org>, ben### [at] catholicorg says...
> > bingo.
> >
> > as we sit in front of our computers, a copy of POV-Ray 3.5 is whizzing
> > above our heads in the International Space Station (courtesy of Mark
> > Shuttleworth).
> 
> Ooooh. That's just too cool! I wonder how exclusive we are as far as
> rendering software used in space... I can imagine Lightwave being up
> there... NASA has used it for visualizations before.
> 

So, what popular fantasy theme would someone in a REAL spacecraft render 
most often?

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From: Roland Mösl
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 5 May 2002 15:30:02
Message: <3cd5883a$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3cd46738@news.povray.org...
> Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> > nothing can be too fast...
>
>   Yes, there can be.
>   Ever played those ancient DOS games with no time sync (ie. the ones made
> assuming the speed of the computer is always the same)?-)

I have a Pacman with this feature :-)

Set to slowest, it was even on my 486 DX2/66 notebook much to fast.

It's funny to start it on every new notebook I have :-)


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From: Jan Walzer
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 5 May 2002 17:06:09
Message: <3cd59ec1$1@news.povray.org>

> > > nothing can be too fast...
> >   Yes, there can be.
> >   Ever played those ancient DOS games with no time sync (ie. the ones made
> > assuming the speed of the computer is always the same)?-)
>
> I have a Pacman with this feature :-)
>
> Set to slowest, it was even on my 486 DX2/66 notebook much to fast.

AFAIK, I've seen somewhere "out there[1]" a JAVA-App[2], that emulates
a complete x86-PC (in Java) ... but dunno the name ...

This should be slow enough ... *g* [3.14]


[1] I mean "The-Net(TM)"
[2] IIRC it was something that was rather developed as
    a ProoveOfConcept on a university ...
[3.14] Yes, I know, that JAVA does not imply slowness -
       it's rather coincidence ...


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From:
Subject: Re: duty cycle feature
Date: 6 May 2002 05:54:58
Message: <cn9cdukaimkv0l3ef39gl52mjit6lrm14i@4ax.com>
On Sat, 4 May 2002 15:54:06 +1000, "Chris Cason"
<new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote:
> Did anyone ever read the docs for the newish 'Duty Cycle' feature
> in POVWIN, and wonder why specifically I put it in ?

yes

> Did you wonder perhaps that there was a specific reason ?

This is well explained in documentation however it ispired me for some
decision week ago. For some machines near me I have to pause pov from 8 to 18
(day activity of company) and unpase it from 18 to 8 (night inactivity).
Controlling it via level priority or duty cycles is not enough becouse
sometimes miliseconds are important in our case. So I plan to prepare for
myself some kind of crone feature inside winpov when source will be available.

ABX


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