"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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> Jim Holsenback wrote:
>>
>> Number of photons shot:           93273
>> Surface photons stored:               1
>> Priority queue insert:         60761272
>> Gather function called:        62614147
>>
>> Does that mean that I only got  1  valid photon?
>
> Yes, in such a scene you will never get reasonable results with photons 
> when you shoot them at the whole water surface.

    Yikes .... I thought so! Is there anyway to only look at a section of my 
water plane?
    I wanted to try to get some sparkles on the water. Am I on a fools 
errand?

Jim
>
> Christoph
>
> -- 
> POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/ (Last updated 24 Jul. 2005)
> MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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