POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!) : Re: 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!) Server Time
3 Oct 2024 08:15:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4.5 Week Render (Gasp!)  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 8 Mar 2000 19:21:15
Message: <38C6ED58.A7071486@hotmail.com>
Hi!

David Fontaine wrote:

> 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! :-)

So then we don't know how much time the nature uses for rendering anything!
-> because we don't know what destination the nature has choosen for its photons ;-)

Tor Olav

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