I think the test image took about 10 minutes on a 700MHz Athlon, but a
1024x768 screen-full of bricks took almost nine hours. The problem,
according to some folks who know a lot more about this stuff than I do, is
that the rays have to be tested for every brick in the whole scene.

Source posted on povray.binaries.scene-files.

Regards,
Dave

"Marc van den Dikkenberg" <exc### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 May 2000 10:06:47 -0700, "Dave Blandston"
> <gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
> >This is a macro that creates a stone or brick wall. It has two stone
> >placement methods, the first being the standard offset brick pattern, and
> >the second is a somewhat random placement pattern. As it is now, this
thing
> >is easy to use, but renders really slowly. If anyone is interested, I
will
> >be glad to post the source.
>
> Pretty!
>
> Source would be appreciated!
>
> By the way: how slow is 'slowly'? How long did it take you to render the
> test image?
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