David El Tom spake:

> don't ask me, what I had in mind as I put this image together ....
> 
> but more then the image itself the render time did hurt (~2400h @P3;1GHz).
> I had to raise the photons gather values to something insane like 300,
> 2000 to smooth out the photon map (~140MB).
> Lower values gave just a bunch of sparkles ....
> 
> If anybody got good ideas to avoid these render times on scenes with a lot
> reflective/refractive objects I would be happy.
> 
> ... dave

At last! Somebody who also waits 100s of days for his traces to complete!

Very well done - the tooth doesn't do it for me, but the glasses and the
very nice caustics / photons does.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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