"David Brickell" <d.b### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Orchid XP v2 wrote:
> >> Been a long while since I have had a play with Povray.  Just did 
this 
> >> for a bit of fun.  Makes quite a nice desktop image I think, what 
do 
> >> you think?
> > 
> > Could also make a very cool animation if you zoom the fractal while 
> > keeping the segments in the same place. (Maybe spin the camera 
around a 
> > bit.) Would probably look something like a disco floor...
> 
> I've been dabbling with some animations but I am having some issues.
> 
> I tried to do an animation making the tile sizes progressively smaller 

> but for some reason the rendering times increased so much I could not 
do 
>   it.  This is really weird because if I render a single frame from 
the 
> middle of the animation it renders really quickly. (<1 min compared to 

> over 8 mins in the anim)
> 
> I will keep dabbling anyway.

sounds to me like a memory-leak issue.  Are you using an older version 
of POV-Ray ?

cu!
-- 
#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*C/50#end#macro _(b,e,k,l)#local C=0;#while(C<50)
sphere{G(b,e)+3*z.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1;
#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
_(0x+y.5+y/2x)_(0x-y.5+y/2x)            // ZK http://www.povplace.com

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