CShake wrote:

> I've been swamped with grad school work recently, and decided that I
> needed to play with Povray again to stay sane. Thanks to Bill Pragnell's
> Archimedean solids file in the Object Collection, this is the result.
> 
> I think I may have overdone it a bit with the focal blur, but too much
> less and it seemed to lose the depth. Because of the reflectivity of the
> 'atoms' and large amounts of emissive and absorptive media, this was
> about 8.25 hours for the render, which leads me to think that I could
> turn down some settings in radiosity.

8.25 hours for that WITH radiosity -and- focal blur? That isn't a bad  
render time at all. (At least, not for me.)

Then again, it might just be time for me to upgrade to a new PC with a quad-
CPU.

Nice image.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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