"Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> wrote in message
news:39bd303c@news.povray.org...
| "Bob Hughes" wrote:
| > Running the program on this 500MHz (in DOS of course) machine
| > it's not a fast compute for just 100's of stars surprisingly enough.
| > No where near a real-time display.
|
| No where near a real-time display...?
|
| You are talking about a galaxy - do you realise how slow "real-time" is?
;-)

Yes.  That would be if and when POV-Ray is calculating it all out.  I didn't
mean that.  We hurt the ones we love most.
Of course I meant as simulated real-time.  Best I saw was a 100 star count
flickering extremely noticeably, fewer stars wouldn't look like much so I
didn't even try less than that.  300 goes blink-blink.
The trouble I'm having in the conversion is two fold, firstly the array does
not want to be called after the initialization (inside a while loop) and
secondly how to go about animating a series of frames since the array needs
to be accumulative.  Saving them to file might go okay, but the first
problem is insurmountable for me so far.

Bob

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