pasta wrote:
> is there any way to evaluate the complexity of a scene in povray 3.5 with an
> absolute measure like triangles as in opengl?

The complexity of the scene code for the parser can be measured by the 
number of tokens (as reported by POV-Ray).  There is no way to measure 
the complexity of a scene for the renderer, you can have a scene of just 
256 bytes without fancy loops and macros that takes hours to render, see:

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/povray/scc3/final/


Christoph

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