POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Days of Old : Re: Days of Old Server Time
13 Aug 2024 09:28:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Days of Old  
From: Ken
Date: 5 Apr 2003 13:03:47
Message: <3E8F1B9F.E6D5A834@pacbell.net>
Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> > Something I have been working on for the past couple of weeks. I wanted
> > to add more to the scene but I don't have enough system resources left
> > so it will have to do. Hope you like it....
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> That's great!

Thanks.

>  Its not at all like other scenes of yours I remember.
> Lots of reflective transparent shapes in a mathematical grid as I
> recall.

I go through various phases :) I used to play with menger sponges, then
I moved on to HF images, played with trees for a while, then came media,
played with photons for quite a while when MegaPaov was first introduced,
and.... and....

> I seem to remember that you keep up a pretty macho system?  I'm
> confused.

A year and a half ago I had the fastest system of anyone on this server.
Now, sadly, it is middle of the road. I have a 950 athlon with 256 megs
of ram.

> This image does look SO demanding.

Peak memory use was around a 750 megs. I thought my poor hard drive was
going to die from all of the disk thrashing going on swapping out memory.
The 4 trees were pretty much the nail in the coffin.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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