Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote :
> >
> > Real neat.
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
> > If Dave Blandston can manage to fix up a Basic program array converted to
> > POV script array then we'll be able to do galactic collisions using glow.
> > And if he can't figure it out hopefully someone else can.  I haven't given
> > up entirely myself either.
> 
>     Hmmm... I saw some sort of galactic collision mpeg somewhere... I can't
> imagine the render times.

Someone posted a link a few months back in p.o-t. of a simulation of the
collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda.  IIRC it took months of
calculations on a few Crays to do it.

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