Yes, those superellipsoids are one of POVs slow to render primitives
if you difference or merge them from each other. The latest renders I
just posted at p.b.i. has them and it is much slower if they are made
hollow via a removal of their interiors.
Manually bounding seems to slow these further.
You might try using a 'fade_distance' in your lights.
Animated Gif of that res is going to be a large file, Mpg would be so
much better, even a decent Avi.

Bob

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Stuart Johnston wrote:
> >
> > If you go to the following web page you'll hopefully get my drift.
> > Im only gettting 13pps on a P90 with POV.win.
> > I think it's the superellipsoids, but doing an 8x640x320 animation
> > means-35hrs.
> > I now appreciate I could cut down on my lights (6 of).
> >
> > Go here....Please...Please...Please....
> > http://www.ozemail.com.au/~stuartjohnston/POV/POV_html.html
> >
> > Stu### [at] ozemailcomau
>
> Merging superellipsoids on a P90 is your most likely culprit along
with the
> fact you have transparent objects in the scene which are inherently
slower
> to render than other objects anyway.
>
> Have you considered overclocking your system to boost performance ?
> http://www.tomshardware.com/overclock.html
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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