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5 Sep 2024 20:18:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speeding up glass-raytracing / Pentium optimization  
From: TonyB
Date: 20 Sep 1999 18:22:56
Message: <37e6b3c0@news.povray.org>
>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 know this fellow who 'jumped' from a 286 to a 233 Pentium with MMX... he
said he was "waiting for the advancement of technology to slow down before
he got on the bandwagon".

>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.

It had better be spectacular... and posted within the first 5 minutes of
being done rendering. ;)


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