Simon Lemieux wrote:
> 
> The eye perceive about 30 frames per second...  which means you would have to
> render every frame in 1/30 seconds...  that is if you divide the speed of my
> computer (433) for let say a 1 second render of povray by (1/30) you get the
> computer of your dream and it's probably not a Pentium since it should have
> 12990Mhz!!! (<currentSpee>/(1/<fps>)) = (433/(1/30)) = 12990Mhz!

MHz is hardly the only thing affecting render speed. Other important factors
are, for example, increased parallelism and faster memory subsytems.
A typical 600 MHz PIII system is far in excess of 600 times faster than a
typical 1 MHz XT system.

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Margus Ramst

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