"fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message 
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> "Dre" <and### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> "fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
>> news:web.498609b1334f43c14f44ad660@news.povray.org...
>> > "triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> >> "fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
>> >> > 3 hours with mcpov for a RSOCP scene.
>> >>
>> >> Neat.  Three hours, eh?  I'll assume you need portals to get it to 
>> >> render
>> >> that
>> >> quickly, even on a quad-core.  How do you set that up for toroidal 
>> >> lights
>> >> though?  Do you bound it by a sphere?  Do you approximate the tori 
>> >> with a
>> >> mesh?
>> >>  Or maybe you have other tricks up your sleeve...
>> >>
>> >>  - Ricky
>> >
>> > No portal. There is too much light sources and portals would be too 
>> > slow.
>> > I use
>> > high number of primary diffuse rays (12).
>> >
>> > Attached the source of the scene.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Fidos.
>> >
>> Can I ask how many passes this scenes took?
>>
>> I'm just curious as I have it running atm and its on pass 14 and still 
>> very
>> very blurry.  I dont have the CPU power you do but its been going to for
>> twice as long allready.
>>
>> Cheers Dre
>
> Around 28 passes on 4 cores if I remember well. But, 28x8 passes is not
> equivalent to 56x2 or 112x1 passes. Better is 28x8 passes.
> H. Karsten point out that in its post :
> http://news.povray.org/web.49563c4fbe8b348c20776f0%40news.povray.org
> The problem is in the way mcpov choise the pixels to trace in order to 
> reduce
> noise.
>
> Regards,
> Fidos
>
>

Okay well I left it on over night (3.1gig dual core machine) and its now 
done 76 passes.  Its still very blurry compared to yours.  I'll have a read 
and see if I can work out what is going on in that link you sent.

Thanks for the info!

Cheers Dre

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