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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 09:00:55
Message: <3a4f3c17@news.povray.org>
"Data" <not@all> wrote in message news:3a4eb709@news.povray.org...
> Just something I'm part way through making. On a cyrix MII 300, 60M ram it
> took 5 hours 23 minutes to render, no AA. The pattern on the surface is
> incomplete
>
Forgot to add. MegaPov 0.6a, with MegaMetals used
Rendered at 320x240, rescaled in animation for space reasons


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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 09:33:33
Message: <3a4f43bd@news.povray.org>
I know, but for some reason Animation Shop hasn't been saving the AVIs. It
says it is, but the file is 0k :(
Maybe I'll just upload & post a link. Sorry 'bout that.

"Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
news:3a4f3896@news.povray.org...
> Please post MPG-1's, not GIF's.
>
> Note to Ken:  we oughtta have a policy or guideline or statement of "most
> people prefer format X"...
>


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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 09:38:14
Message: <3a4f44d6@news.povray.org>
"Tony[B]" <wrote in message news:3a4ec4e1@news.povray.org...
> Gandalf's Ring?
>
Nope, just something off the top of my head. Designed for a present. And
believe it or not the final design will quite likely be made in silver :)


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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 09:59:48
Message: <3a4f49e4@news.povray.org>
If you'd like to make an MPEG out of, for example, Targa files from POV-Ray,
you can use CMPEG, a freeware DOS utility that many POVers use.  You can
find it here:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.1/garbo/garbo_pc/graphics/cmpeg10.zip

--
Lance.

http://come.to/the.zone


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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 10:43:31
Message: <3a4f5423@news.povray.org>
"Lance Birch" <-> wrote in message news:3a4f49e4@news.povray.org...
> If you'd like to make an MPEG out of, for example, Targa files from
POV-Ray,
> you can use CMPEG, a freeware DOS utility that many POVers use.  You can
> find it here:
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.1/garbo/garbo_pc/graphics/cmpeg10.zip
>
Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I usually render to Bitmap. Oh, final version
underway. 240x180, AA on at 0.3, only 90 frames otherwise the poor Cyrix
would be busy for several days. Thinned the band somewhat so it's less
clunky. It IS for a female finger, after all


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From: Dearmad
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 15:30:10
Message: <3A4F987D.9D4EEC80@teleport.com>
Data wrote:
> 
> "Lance Birch" <-> wrote in message news:3a4f49e4@news.povray.org...
> > If you'd like to make an MPEG out of, for example, Targa files from
> POV-Ray,
> > you can use CMPEG, a freeware DOS utility that many POVers use.  You can
> > find it here:
> > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.1/garbo/garbo_pc/graphics/cmpeg10.zip
> >
> Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I usually render to Bitmap. Oh, final version
> underway. 240x180, AA on at 0.3, only 90 frames otherwise the poor Cyrix
> would be busy for several days. Thinned the band somewhat so it's less
> clunky. It IS for a female finger, after all

I don't understand why it's so slow?  Or is that about the normal speed
for the tracer you're using?  Do you have a huge load of IOR going on or
something?  The ring is surrounded by blackness so it isn't reflecting
other refracting objects and for only 90 frames... What sort of
primitives or math did you use in the source file?  Are you
multi-tasking heavily?

I'm not accusing you or anything of foul play here... ;o)  but I'm
really curious.


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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 20:42:09
Message: <3a4fe071@news.povray.org>
Dearmad wrote:
> Data wrote:
> >
> > "Lance Birch" <-> wrote in message news:3a4f49e4@news.povray.org...
> > > If you'd like to make an MPEG out of, for example, Targa files from
> > POV-Ray,
> > > you can use CMPEG, a freeware DOS utility that many POVers use.  You
can
> > > find it here:
> > > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.1/garbo/garbo_pc/graphics/cmpeg10.zip
> > >
> > Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I usually render to Bitmap. Oh, final
version
> > underway. 240x180, AA on at 0.3, only 90 frames otherwise the poor Cyrix
> > would be busy for several days. Thinned the band somewhat so it's less
> > clunky. It IS for a female finger, after all
>
> I don't understand why it's so slow?  Or is that about the normal speed
> for the tracer you're using?  Do you have a huge load of IOR going on or
> something?  The ring is surrounded by blackness so it isn't reflecting
> other refracting objects and for only 90 frames... What sort of
> primitives or math did you use in the source file?  Are you
> multi-tasking heavily?
>
> I'm not accusing you or anything of foul play here... ;o)  but I'm
> really curious.

I think it's just because he's using a *Cyrix*, which aren't very fast when
it comes to doing the processing needed for raytracing.

--
Lance.

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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with 358kbu
Date: 31 Dec 2000 20:49:08
Message: <3a4fe214@news.povray.org>
> > Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I usually render to Bitmap. Oh, final
version
> > underway. 240x180, AA on at 0.3, only 90 frames otherwise the poor Cyrix
> > would be busy for several days. Thinned the band somewhat so it's less
> > clunky. It IS for a female finger, after all
>
> I don't understand why it's so slow?  Or is that about the normal speed
> for the tracer you're using?  Do you have a huge load of IOR going on or
> something?  The ring is surrounded by blackness so it isn't reflecting
> other refracting objects and for only 90 frames... What sort of
> primitives or math did you use in the source file?  Are you
> multi-tasking heavily?
>
> I'm not accusing you or anything of foul play here... ;o)  but I'm
> really curious.

More a case of a very low performance chip. I've seen this Cyrix out
performed by a Pentium 166 with 16M of memory. With only Exporer, Systray
and Megapov, the final 90 frames took 9.5 hours. Mind you, it was shooting
photons for over an hour of that time. Plus the ring itself is composed of
840 blobbed spheres - 360 for the ring, 480 for the pattern. The setting is
made of blobbed cylinders. The gem is a plain ruby sphere. Blobs always take
ages, anyway (at least for me)


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From: Data
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with [AVI, 268kbu]
Date: 31 Dec 2000 20:51:28
Message: <3a4fe2a0@news.povray.org>
"Data" <not@all> wrote in message news:3a4f43bd@news.povray.org...
> I know, but for some reason Animation Shop hasn't been saving the AVIs. It
> says it is, but the file is 0k :(
> Maybe I'll just upload & post a link. Sorry 'bout that.
>
Okay, reinstalled the codex and I've managed to convince it to save
properly.


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Attachments:
Download 'ring1.avi.dat' (268 KB)

From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: something I'm toying with [AVI, 268kbu]
Date: 31 Dec 2000 21:18:44
Message: <chrishuff-BF29AB.21200931122000@news.povray.org>
In article <3a4fe2a0@news.povray.org>, "Data" <not@all> wrote:

> Okay, reinstalled the codex and I've managed to convince it to save
> properly.

Unfortunately, I couldn't see it...just got white frames.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
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