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14 Aug 2024 20:21:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: old dog, new tricks....  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 6 Sep 2002 23:34:06
Message: <3d7973ae@news.povray.org>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Needed another render of the 3com network card I did ages ago, this time
> with focal blur, 2 area lights and a touch of rad. tweaked the scene
> slightly and altered a lot of the settings for 3.5 (old was done with MP)
> 
> damn thing ate up over 200MB of ram and took 5 hours to render, weird thing
> being the ram usage without rad, or without focal blur was only around 50MB,
> and the render time was typically under 15minutes for either. yet putting
> the 2 together and it nearly choked.

Holy crap! If you had better focal blur (and maybe slightly less of it) 
this would be photorealistic...

-Xplo


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