POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Quick n' random : Re: Quick n' random Server Time
30 Jul 2024 08:15:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quick n' random  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Jun 2012 16:13:14
Message: <4fe8c65a$1@news.povray.org>
Am 25.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Eero Ahonen:

> The original picture has 20 joints. Here's one with 10 joints from 3.6,
> apparently it renders in under 9 minutes, even though 3.7 is taking it's
> share of the CPU resources at the same time. Also 3.6 is now going in
> 33% after just 18 minutes. Even though the different versions seem to
> render the scenes differently (3.6 in lines, 3.7 in pieces) and possibly
> to calculate the percentages a bit differently (or hitting more load at
> one time to be precise) due to this, it seems that this scene is way
> harder for 3.7 to render. OTOH the visible part of the image seems to
> say that 3.7 makes a lot better quality (mostly concerning the
> sphere_sweep artefacts).

Yes, fixing a good deal of the sphere_sweep artifacts came at a price. 
We found the problem to be rounding issues in some optimization code; as 
it would have been difficult to fix, we decided to turn it off for now.


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