Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <39062852.9E574715@ibm.net>, Andrew Clinton
> <cli### [at] ibmnet> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for the insight... well it doesn't look like this will be
> > happening anytime soon.  Maybe something for Pov-ray version 10 :)
> 
> Do you think we will need one by then? Computers are getting faster,
> even in relation to rendering requirements.
> 
> > The quality or mosaic preview are nice but they still fall short when
> > I need both passable quality and rendering speed at the same time.
> > My current project ( a physics motion simulation study) will probably
> > take upwards of 1 week to render even with the best possible
> > optimizations I can add to my code.
> 
> What is your scene file composed of?!? Does it have a huge number of
> transparent surfaces, blurred reflections, radiosity with high recursion
> levels, etc?

Indeed ! Perhaps Andrew is needlessly over complicating things.

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