Good use for the "histogram"!

"povray.org admin team" wrote:
> 
> Spider <spi### [at] bahnhofse> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Bob Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >> As Thorsten pointed out, the documentation says it all.
> >> Summed up:
> >> it allows for a visual representation of computation "intensity" of the
> >> scene being rendered; and since it is a red/green (no blue) image it's
> >> suggested use is for height fields, though getting a scene together for
> >> one in this way is not exactly easy to shape if you want to form a
> >> height field.
> >> Other than that, I haven't seen any other uses myself.
> 
> If the information is output to a .CSV file, you can then input that file into
> a program that handles distributed rendering. It can use the information giving
> which parts of the output image are more processor-intensive to work out a more
> optimal sub-division in terms of which CPU's render which bits.

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