"Ben T. Scheele" wrote:
> 
>     That seems to be about right for a very large render with that high of a
> trace level.  Some of my scenes get into the billions for tests of boxes and
> bounds, such as my last post, which does use a lot of reflections and
> refractions.  For only a 768 square it took three hours, but that's probably
> due to the 9 photon emitting light sources.  What kind of lighting did you
> use in your scene?  I've never heard of that enormous of an image being
> rendered with povray.  I suppose somebody's probably tested the limits with
> a simple scene before, but with one such as yours, I don't know.  Would you
> please post the full image?  Resized and resampled of course.  I know we
> won't be able to see all the nifty little details that way, but hey, have
> mercy on us 56k'ers.   It's tough to tell from the current image what your
> scene is, but I can see a sky and a landscape in the a reflection on a
> corner of the abstract glassy object.  It's pretty cool.
> 
> -Ben Scheele

Well .. the image is a tad large for a 56K modem : 

$ ls -lap tet5_8192x6160.tga
-rw-r--r--   1 dclarke  other    151388178 Dec 17 12:09 tet5_8192x6160.tga 

The png images are much smaller.  I'll see if I can post them to my website.

As for limits I will attempt a 16384x12320 image tonight!

Dennis Clarke

Here is a bit of the CPU histogram for the image ...

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