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From: David Fontaine
Date: 17 Jan 2001 18:55:05
Message: <3A662F9C.E092DC07@faricy.net>

"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:

> 1. It took me 24 hours to compute this scene spanning 50 years and 20
> particles on a 450 MHz Pentium II.

That's a looong time. Quite seriously, if you have a compiler you probably
want to port it. It'll run several (hundred?) times faster. Then just have POV
read in the data.

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