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Tom A. wrote:
| I got the end's shape - there are six platforms that cicle the
| hemispherical slope - and ran a trace() to place steps made of
boxes. It
| generated over 10,000 steps.  The parse went fairly quickly.  Then the
| render started.
|
| I'm doing this on a Windows 98 system with an Athelon 2200 (which is
| equivalent of a 1.2G pentium).  It was rendering 130 pixels per
_minute_.
|
| Needless to say, I pulled the stairway.
|
| Anyone have a suggestion for a quicker render?

	Use a hierarchy of manual bounding boxes, it might speed things a
lot (in older versions of POV it did, I don't know if that got
improved since).

		Jerome

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