"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
[...]
> this is one of my more complete scenes, however it seems like there's always
> room for improvements/additions. I've started working on brick lined
> archways rather than just csg'ing out a hole, with minimum decoration. I
> really love this stuff (POV) I could and DO spend hours trying out new
> ideas.

Heh... I could spend days and weeks... over the past month I had been
doing 4-day-long animation renders (well, the 4-day length is probably
'cos I've been wayyy too liberal with reflection & refraction and loop
generated light sources) until my laptop DC input jack got damaged
and I had to take it in for repairs. I may be just imagining things,
but I somehow suspect that 4-day-long renders had something to do
with the power jack overheating and melting the plastic, damaging
the internal power splitter... :-S  So for the time being, I'm being
more conservative about what I do. Nevertheless, that didn't stop me
from attempting to render a scene that requires more memory than
my laptop has... one of these days, my hard drive is probably going
to call it quits on me.

> Some of you folks have set the bar pretty high, so I feel like I'm
> always catching up. When the snow flies and it's too darn cold outside, it's
> a great way to spend an afternoon.
[...]

Don't worry, I've yet to come up with a complete, non-trivial scene, so
you're already ahead of me. :-)

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