I played around a little bit with the codesnippet that Paul Daniel Jones
provided in p.b.s-f. This little diamond in the rough was the result.

Photons, media, iossurfaces and what not. Trace and parse time totalled
to 4h 0m 26s on a PIII 650 with 192 Mb RAM. THe machine runs WinNT and a
bunch of other things in the background. Uhm, what else ... yes, the
command line options were as thus: +FT +QR +FN +AM2 +A0.1 +R5

I might put on a larger render later on, I just wanted to see how it
looked like first. :-)

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Looks like translucent alien poop. Cool.

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Very good look to it, albeit small.  Makes me think of a brain that has
crystallized maybe, were there such a thing.  That's a slow render, so perhaps
half a day to render at twice the size?  Yeow.

Bob


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| I played around a little bit with the codesnippet that Paul Daniel Jones
| provided in p.b.s-f. This little diamond in the rough was the result.
|
| Photons, media, iossurfaces and what not. Trace and parse time totalled
| to 4h 0m 26s on a PIII 650 with 192 Mb RAM. THe machine runs WinNT and a
| bunch of other things in the background. Uhm, what else ... yes, the
| command line options were as thus: +FT +QR +FN +AM2 +A0.1 +R5
|
| I might put on a larger render later on, I just wanted to see how it
| looked like first. :-)

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TonyB wrote:
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> Looks like translucent alien poop. Cool.

Hehehe, thanks ... I think. :-)

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Bob Hughes wrote:
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> Very good look to it, albeit small.  Makes me think of a brain that has
> crystallized maybe, were there such a thing.  That's a slow render, so perhaps
> half a day to render at twice the size?  Yeow.

Well, I'm having my machine do a 320x240 render now, with the same
settings. It's at line 47 at the moment with a runtime of 4h 48m, and
the blasted thing makes it impossible to watch my DVDs at the same time.
:-((

But it looks darn good so far. :-)) I changed the IOR to that of a real
diamond: 2.471

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Looks nice. Speedup tip: +am2 +a0.1 +r3 
I don't think you'll get much visual difference. Even +r2 usually turns out
good with adaptive sampling.

> Photons, media, iossurfaces and what not.

Dispersion? :)

sig

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Sigmund Kyrre Aas wrote:
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> Looks nice. Speedup tip: +am2 +a0.1 +r3

Hmm, thanks, I'll try that instead.

> I don't think you'll get much visual difference. Even +r2 usually turns out
> good with adaptive sampling.
> 
> > Photons, media, iossurfaces and what not.
> 
> Dispersion? :)

Yup! :-D

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Serge LAROCQUE wrote:
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> Very nice, I wouldn't mind testing that scene on my machine to see how slow it
> would be. :)

That can be arranged... :-) I can post the source in p.b.s-f. Nothing
original in there though, just code snippets stoled here and there.

> BTW, what is the Ducati in your sig? Referring to a bike? <siiiiiiiigh> I miss
> my motorcycle...........

Yes, it's my Ducati Il Mostro, nicknamed Clementine for obvious reasons.
If you wish, go to my webpage and have a look:
<URL:http://sandbox.razorfish.no/privat/borge/>

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