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3 Aug 2024 02:21:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "Stairway of the Gods" on Rama  
From: John D  Gwinner
Date: 3 Jul 2004 12:02:52
Message: <40e6d8ac@news.povray.org>
When do we get to see a WIP?  Looking forward to that.

I was working on an ONeil colony a while ago, hit a snag with heightfields
on the inside of a hollow cylinder.  I later saw a fix for that but then ran
into an odd scaling problemw with Photons, which I never got resolved.

        == John ==

"Tom A." <met### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:40e01923$1@news.povray.org...

> > (For those who haven't read it - it's a hollow, cylindrical cylinder
> > with an interior 50 km long, and an internal diameter of 16 km.  It
> > rotates to generate artificial gravity against the inner surface.)

...

> Put the code on the other side of the } and it vastly sped up.  (With my
> debug lighting I got about 1500 pps.  When I turn on Rama's six area
> lights, it drops to about 500.  Oh well.)


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