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  I need a faster computer.  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 1 Feb 2010 18:10:57
Message: <4b675f81@news.povray.org>
Scene contains 6 frame level objects; 0 infinite.

Statistics for triforce.pov, Resolution 640 x 480
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Pixels:          312000   Samples:          312000   Smpls/Pxl: 1.00
Rays:          20049467   Saved:            579731   Max Level: 10/10
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Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
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Box                         7642950539      5029906249     65.81
CSG Intersection            1606762390       586731732     36.52
Bounding Box                4711634819      3005395253     63.79
Light Buffer                8364355053      5795374111     69.29
Vista Buffer                   1202459          901250     74.95
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Calls to Noise:                  0   Calls to DNoise:             10
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Media Intervals:          24236446   Media Samples:        690560487 (28.49)
Shadow Ray Tests:       1197618743   Succeeded:            575085574
Reflected Rays:           10840576   Total Internal:         5663492
Refracted Rays:            6429680
Transmitted Rays:          2408330
Number of photons shot:          58881
Surface photons stored:         563400
Media photons stored:         25211616
Priority queue insert:    159359134552
Priority queue remove:     93253179332
Gather function called:        3608877
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Smallest Alloc:                 25 bytes   Largest:           327704
Peak memory used:        516015973 bytes
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Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   1.0 seconds (1 seconds)
Time For Photon:   0 hours  2 minutes  28.0 seconds (148 seconds)
Time For Trace:   88 hours 45 minutes  32.0 seconds (319526 seconds)
     Total Time:   88 hours 47 minutes  55.0 seconds (319675 seconds)
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CPU time used: kernel 208.67 seconds, user 272669.25 seconds, total 
272877.92 seconds
Render averaged 1.13 PPS over 307200 pixels

An i7 ought to do this in 3.5 hours, not 3.5 days.  I'm not even using 
antialiasing or very high media/photon settings!

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net


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