> Thanks! I had to try the pose myself to work out the bends for the joints,
:) It's always funny when someone enters the room while you're doing stuff
like that.

> doesn't give that big an increase in image quality.
I disagree with you there.. Yes, it is slower to use AA, but it's worth it,
and it does a lot for image quality! I always use it for the final render.

> I'm always complaining about how slow they are. Still, that's nothing
You are perhaps not into over-night rendering? :) Crank up the resolution,
add AA, area lights and more CPU-consuming stuff.. Then go to bed and look
at the great image the next morning/afternoon!

> compared to your second scene (or even some IRTC entries, I saw one that
> took 14 days to render!).
IIRC, someone posted a picture here a while ago, which took 3 months to
render? (correct me if I'm wrong folks, it was the one with the cigar,
sherlock holmes thing).

> This rendering was done on a P3/500Mhz @ 515MHz with 384 meg ram, running
> WinXP Pro. If your scene took over a day to render on a p2/450, I wonder
> how much faster it would render on my computer, 5% faster? 10% faster?

450*1.11111 ... = 500
That should be 11.11% faster, but you have a P3, so it might be even more? I
guess it's because of the way the CPU is built (it's late, can't remember
the correct terms). I can't wait for AMD 64bit CPU :) They'll rock! Is there
a POV-Ray version that supports 64bit CPUs?

*installing Myst III: Exile* perhaps I should go to bed...? =)

-Peter

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