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5 Sep 2024 20:17:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speeding up glass-raytracing / Pentium optimization  
From: Ken
Date: 20 Sep 1999 15:54:07
Message: <37E6905B.5869EE4C@pacbell.net>
Ty Matthews wrote:
> 
> Tim Kaulmann <T.K### [at] Zentralde> wrote in message
> news:37e54ab3@news.povray.org...
> 
> > At a certain point my POV3.1 for Win slows down to 2 pps on my Pentium MMX
> > 233 (128 MB RAM) :-(
> 
> I can tell I'm in for a fun ride.  I only have a Pentium 150.

Say good night Ty :)
 
> Just out of curiosity, though.  Who holds the record for the longest time
> letting their computer render an image and where is the image?  It would
> take mine probably a week and a half to render a 1280x1024 image, adding an
> extra three and a half days over Tim's 2 pps.
> 
> Ty Matthews

I have no idea what the record is nor where the image may be. I would easily
speculate though that some renders in the early days of the program when
people were running on 286's some lasted in the range of months. I currently
have a render going on a p200 that is now 52% complete at 29 hrs. with not
a single glass object in sight.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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