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20 Jul 2024 03:32:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: particle smoke (358kb mpg)  
From: jimbobjim
Date: 18 Mar 2002 11:36:19
Message: <3c961783@news.povray.org>
"Mark James Lewin" <m_j### [at] yahoocomau> wrote
> Reading data for 2000+ particles from file, calculating their next
positions, and
> writing them back to file is not a fast process. There comes a point where
the
> time needed for parsing thousands of particles becomes greater than
rendering a
> few dozen media filled spheres. And unfortunately, this type of smoke sim
needs
> _really_ high particle counts.
>
yeah - after I posted I started writing my own version and it's kinda-sorta
slow and doesn't look as good as yours
jim


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