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2 Sep 2024 00:15:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photons and UDO files  
From: Psychomek
Date: 25 Aug 2000 02:33:57
Message: <39A614FF.DE0DA041@home.com>
it is a mesh of a diamond...  (9 diamonds to be exact) with AA, Jitter, 5x5 area
light, and a plane.  i think i posted the code in the binary.scene-file
group....  look for diamond lockup or something like that


Ron Parker wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:15:26 -0700, Ken wrote:
> >
> >
> >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.
>
> More to the point, POV doesn't have something called a "UDO" object.  That's
> a Moray thing, and tells us nothing about what the object actually is.  It
> could be a sphere, for all we know.
>
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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