POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Photons and UDO files : Re: Photons and UDO files Server Time
2 Sep 2024 00:16:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photons and UDO files  
From: Ken
Date: 24 Aug 2000 01:17:47
Message: <39A4AF6E.EBE21765@pacbell.net>
Psychomek wrote:
> 
> Anyone know what the "usual" time for a glass UDO object to render with
> photons?  2 days, 3 days, a week, a month?

Minutes to hours depending on the number of facets, the amount of
reflection, the number of photons you shoot at it, and how many
light sources are present in the scene that are allowed to shoot
photons at the object in question. There are really too many
variables to give you an accurate answer.

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