POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : My new fan : Re: My new fan Server Time
8 Jul 2024 06:40:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My new fan  
From: And
Date: 14 May 2014 13:45:00
Message: <web.5373aa6340744e5bea0f311c0@news.povray.org>
"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> It's a Braun fan. Modeled mostly in Blender. The stand was also modeled in
> Blender, but when I added a transparent color, rendering times became too long
> (as in stuck at 0% for > 24 hours).

0% for 24 hours? I suppose that only pov-ray has this behavior. Because I often
notice that it rendered CSG slower than mesh.


> So I remade the stand in Povray SDL instead.
> Now render time is about 5 minutes. What is it about transparent meshes that
> causes rendering times to slow down so much?


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