Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Steven Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> > about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
> >
> > All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
> >
>
> I looks good, but 29 days is quite a lot for such a scene.
>
> I wonder how it would look like without the light sources just using radiosity.
> Of course it would be much different but maybe not bad after all and probably at
> least a bit faster.

It uses both radiosity (trace level=2, Q11) and an awful lot of lightsources. I had
to disable lightbuffers, because otherwise it asks for about 800 Megs of light
buffer
memory. eh.

Best,

    S.

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University of Montreal.
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                                  and wavelets.
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