Ken wrote:
> 
> David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > >Well this would certainly weed out a lot of the raytraced entries.
> > >
> > >Cheers PoD.
> >
> > Do you mean that ray tracers can't find more than one veiwpoint?
> > David
> 
>   Actually I think he was thinking about the amount of time it takes to
> raytrace a scene vs. scanline render a scene. Scanline rendering is
> generaly much faster than raytracing and those that wait until the last
> minute with their submissions because of bloated raytracing times will
> never have a chance to wait on a second render to finish.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> See my 1000+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

Indeed.  I've done some scenes (not for IRTC) which are fairly simple in
concept but very slow to render, so an extra image would increase the
total time required significantly.

Cheers, PoD.

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