I have had a problem similar to yours some time ago. I posted an image
( under the name A vase ) and after a suggestion I used area lights
(with radiosity) and the render time increased by a factor of 3. (18 h).
Is it possible that radiosity and area lights don't like to go together?

Alberto.

Simen Kvaal wrote:

> ...
> I tried with an 8x8 area-light (in fact the code is just commented out; it's
> all ready to run), but it takes forever to
> render. Are there any way to speed up without getting the dreaded banding in
> the shadow of the heart? Perhaps lesser radiosity quality?
>
> Simen.
>
>  [Image]

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