POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!) : Re: 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!) Server Time
3 Oct 2024 08:17:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!)  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 27 Feb 2000 23:46:01
Message: <38B9FCDF.2919280B@faricy.net>
Jay Raney wrote:

> Isnt it amazing that POV takes 4.5 weeks to render this but nature could render
> it instantly. :)
> Very nice image, caustics are impressive.

No, nature's render time is however long it takes the light to get from the source
to the destination. Now if you factor in the miniscule, unnoticable effects of
distant stars, nature took billions of years to render it! :-)

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