Chris Huff wrote:

> They could probably be done using media, not sure how realistic it would
> look. I am using individual hairs and fibers for my fly images, even
> making a macro to construct feather tips out of many cylinders and
> cones. I will probably run out of memory before I run out of processer
> power.(I have a 266 G3 with 96MB RAM)

Hrm; media is an interesting idea.  The scary thing is it _would_ be faster.
I never though the day would come..
As to the render speed, methinks the real culprit is my CPU; I've got 128MB
RAM and 400mhz, but in an AMD K6-3, so there go the floating point
calculations..  O for a better processor!

> The floor is interesting...crackle normal?

Bingo.  normal {crackle bump_size 2 scale 1/20}

> Will we be seeing Alt and Delete later?

Depends how many copious free processor cycles I have.. ;>
-Alex V.

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