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4 Oct 2024 11:21:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: just an idea for photon  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 28 Mar 1999 20:52:14
Message: <36FEDCC6.2BC321D8@aol.com>
Strange, I would have expected a dozen replies to your suggestion by
now.
You can get the POV Win 3.1 uvpov.exe (photon patch) already.

 http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm  UVPOV4 is the name.


Noam Lewis wrote:
> 
> Although I don't have the photon patch, I have an idea for all those
> that do:
> 
> 1. Someone think up a nice animation with lots of caustics.
> 2. That someone tests it in low resolution and without photons
> 3. Devide this animation between all those who HAVE the photon patch,
> each one decides how many frames he wants and which ones
> 4. RENDER!
> 5. Each one sends his frames (with loss-less compress, such as ZIP) to
> one guy
> 6. That guy fixes up the final animation and posts it here.
> 
> As individual images take dozens of hours to render, maybe the division
> should be by lines pre picture and not by frame (for example, one guy
> does lines 54-302 in some frame)
> 
> Anyway, just an idea, tho it would be nice!
> And about the patch, If anyone has patched Povray for Windows 3.1 with
> photon mapping, please inform me! i have no intention of doing it
> myself...laziness *sigh* ;)
> 
> ME

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