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  Re: armillary and some dizziness? [~888K MPG]  
From: Dan P
Date: 23 Mar 2004 19:45:05
Message: <4060da11$1@news.povray.org>
"Hughes, B." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
news:4060079f$1@news.povray.org...
> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:405fb05b$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > Cool! Can you make the rings whip-around too?
>
> Hopefully the answer is yes as it renders this very moment. Rather slowly,
> too, since I changed the base to glass. Going to take a total of 10+
hours.
> I was rerendering the gyro at the same time on this newer 3GHz
> Hyperthreading machine and it slowed it down some more. Don't let anyone
> fool you and tell you these Wintel computers are fast when it comes to ray
> tracing!
> ;-)


Sweet! Nobody's foolin' me... I run a stripped Debian Linux box as my render
slave and even at half the Mhz it sings. I boot it when it is time to have
the pooter roll-up its sleeves.

-- 
- Respectfully,
Dan
http://<broken link>


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