In article <39062852.9E574715@ibm.net>, Andrew Clinton 
<cli### [at] ibmnet> wrote:

> Thank you for the insight... well it doesn't look like this will be 
> happening anytime soon.  Maybe something for Pov-ray version 10 :)

Do you think we will need one by then? Computers are getting faster, 
even in relation to rendering requirements.


> The quality or mosaic preview are nice but they still fall short when 
> I need both passable quality and rendering speed at the same time.  
> My current project ( a physics motion simulation study) will probably 
> take upwards of 1 week to render even with the best possible 
> optimizations I can add to my code.

What is your scene file composed of?!? Does it have a huge number of 
transparent surfaces, blurred reflections, radiosity with high recursion 
levels, etc?

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