POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Scrub : Re: Scrub Server Time
20 Aug 2024 00:12:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scrub  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 1 Oct 2000 06:07:11
Message: <39D70CCC.54FE702F@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> 
> This pic has no artistic pretentions but I thought you mught be interested
> by some of the statss
> 
> There are 300,000 clumps, each of 25 blades of grass made of 61 triangles =
> 4575,000,000 triangles
> 
> about 25,000 rocks each made of 16500 triangles = 412,500,000 triangles
> 
> nearly 5 billion triangles
> 
> peak memory usage 1Gb
> 
> parse time 3.5 hours
> 
> render time 11mins
> 

That looks good, how did you create the rocks ?

The rendering/parsing time and memory use seems nearly the opposite of
isosurfaces, where you have nearly no memory requirements and parsing time but
extremely slow renders.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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