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From: Bryan Valencia
Date: 16 Feb 2005 14:22:14
Message: <42139d66@news.povray.org>

My current version of this is on a 1GHz Pentium is taking 1H 3m.  The fun
part is that it's intended to be part of an animation.

Now I remember why I keep going back to heightfields.



"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:pan### [at] nospamcom...
> Out of curiosity, what settings did you render with?
>
> With no AA and at a resolution of 800x600, it rendered on my P4 2Ghz
> laptop in just under 4 minutes under Linux (self-compiled POV-Ray build
> running at niceness -20).
>
> Jim

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