POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Those who wait : Re: Those who wait Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:31:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Those who wait  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Jul 2014 13:41:54
Message: <53d3e862$1@news.povray.org>
Am 26.07.2014 15:23, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> On Thursday, I finished a POV-Ray render that's been running for almost
> exactly 2 years. I think this must be some kind of record or something!
>
> Was it worth it? Erm... not so much, no. I mean, it looks pretty, but
> somehow not as awesome as I had hoped.
>
> Of course, the render _would_ have taken about a week if it weren't for
> the radiosity. It turns out that for animation, you need really high
> settings, otherwise the lighting flickers far too much. And that's why
> the last couple of frames rendered at 8 hours / frame.

Next time try UberPOV's stochastic GI computations ;-)


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