Chambers <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> 40pps :(

  This comment at the beginning of scenes/advanced/piece3/piece3.pov still
amuses me:

// Due to the large number of objects, you will probably have to
// have a lot of memory to render this scene.
// Rendering time using a 25Mhz 386 w/Cyrix fpu is approximately 60 hours.

  It doesn't mention the resolution, but with a modern PC you can render
that scene in almost real-time even at a fair resolution (eg. 640x480).
Even a high resolution render (such as 1024x768) with antialiasing will
take less than 10 seconds.

  (Btw, that comment in that scene file should never be removed or modified.
It's an outstanding testament of how much both PCs and POV-Ray itself have
advanced during the decades.)

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                                                          - Warp

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