"Christoph Hormann" <Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> wrote in
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| Looks good, but the rendering time is horrible ! You should do something
about
| it...
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| I think Bob did a RMF-isosurface mountain animation some time ago, it
wasn't
| that large and the mountains had no additional granite pattern, but it was
| probably a lot faster ...

Heck yes.  33 hours?!  Even with the media there I can't imagine why so slow
to render.  Any reflection in the snow perhaps?  LOL
I mean gee, a 667MHz PIII CPU there afterall.  My machine is a 500MHz PIII
and I think a 360x180 frame was around 3 minutes.  If I were to guess I'd
say a 1024x768 render would have been less than 20 minutes for me, so
something is sure increasing your time there.  Probably the accuracy most of
all, I had used 0.001 not 0.00001 or any such low number.  Surprised to see
there's still artifacts showing up if you did use a very low number.
Media isn't THAT slow.
Oh, yeah.  Great mountains.  The granite might have done well if negatively
applied instead of the usual positive way.  That way you'd get lumps and not
depressions, or it should anyway.

Bob

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