>  Actually I made a little test today with povray. I downloaded a really big
>model from 3dcafe.com: http://www.3dcafe.com/models/dragon3.zip
>  It has 100400 triangles (50204 vertices), which is a nice size to test with.
Really big? It does not seem so big to me, one of my first models
yeeeeeeeears ago (a c64, done on a p90, 8mb of ram with lightwave 4)
was only 50% of that size... Btw it's still something to test...
>I converted it to mesh2 with 3DWin.
>  I made this image with povray 3.5:
>http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/dragon.png
>
>  It took 10 minutes 30 seconds to render in my 1.2GHz Athlon.
>  Please note the blurred-reflecting floor (which you say is not possible
>with povray 3.5).
Well, as U say in your faq (i believe it's yours, am I right), it is
possible using a trick... As U surely know many things are possible in
this world... For example, I could do oop with plain C, but I don't
say that C is an OOP language or that is supports OOP...

>  If I turn off the blur of the reflection, then the scene takes only
>4 minutes to render.
>  If I turn off the area lights, then it takes just 1 minute 30 seconds to
>render. The resulting image is the following:
>http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/dragon_simple.png
>
>  Carefully note the really high-quality antialiasing I used to create the
>image (eg. clearly seen in the borders of the shadow of the model in the
>above picture). I achieved this by using the antialiasing method 2 (with
>method 1 the image above takes less than a minute to render, but the
>quality of the antialiasing is visibly worse).
>
>  I rendered those images at 640x480 with +a0.3 +am2 +fn
>
>  I suppose that lightflow could reach these render times achieving at least
>the same quality, but it would be really interesting to see some results.
I'll try to convert that and I'll tell you the resoult ok?? Or mabye
I'll do something else and send the scene to you, mabye with form
(that has a support for povray output too) as I'm experimenting with
it lately (but I've only used vivid3 to raytrace form scenes)

>  The source of that scene (if you want to get the coordinates of the camera,
>lights, floor and model) can be found at:
>http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/dragon.zip
>
>(Note: The zip-file is 3.5 Megs in size due to the huge mesh.)

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