Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> You're getting a maximum of 10 ray intersections (if I'm wording that 
> right) and using 120? Interesting....  Not necessary to do so then.

I just picked a fairly big number and counted on adc bailout. I don't know why
I got only 10 though. For this render I used fade_power 1000 fade_distance 150
so I expected to see much more ray traces.

>  Thought about using area lights yet? <ducking for
> cover>

BOOM! <catchiiing>
Damn, I missed.

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> >  Thought about using area lights yet? <ducking for
> > cover>
>
> BOOM! <catchiiing>
> Damn, I missed.

I thought about it.  Maybe what we can do is once we are all happy with the
diamond, we can setup an area light then whoever is interested can render a
piece of it.  The majority of the time will be spent on the render, not the
pre-processing, so the parallelism should save us some time.  We could also
be daring and attempt to have more than one diamond.  :)

I have two computers at work that can render overnight.

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"Richard Dault" <rda### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| > >  Thought about using area lights yet? <ducking for
| > > cover>
|
| I thought about it.  Maybe what we can do is once we are all happy with the
| diamond, we can setup an area light then whoever is interested can render a
| piece of it.  The majority of the time will be spent on the render, not the
| pre-processing, so the parallelism should save us some time.  We could also
| be daring and attempt to have more than one diamond.  :)
|
| I have two computers at work that can render overnight.

On somewhat the same subject:  anyone ever pass around a saved photon map
before?  Just curious if that's easy to do, and not only that if there would
be unforeseen problems from one computer to the next.

Bob

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> On somewhat the same subject:  anyone ever pass around a saved photon map
> before?  Just curious if that's easy to do, and not only that if there
would
> be unforeseen problems from one computer to the next.

Ever see the size of those suckers?  The last one I did for the diamond was
137MB (about 4 million photons if I remember correctly), although I'm sure
they compress well and it might be worth the time saving if you have a fast
enough connection.

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Bob Hughes wrote in message <3940c4bd@news.povray.org>...
>On somewhat the same subject:  anyone ever pass around a saved photon map
>before?  Just curious if that's easy to do, and not only that if there
would
>be unforeseen problems from one computer to the next.


The photon map file from my "Teardrop Prism" image was 220 MB.

Mark

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I like.


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Sigmund Kyrre Aas <sig### [at] kyrrenet> wrote in message
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> Various optimizations left me with this one. Much nicer photon
settings, but
> a tad blurry reflection :|
>
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You people use far too many photons.  j/k!  Mine always seem to remain at or
below a million.  But then I have yet to do a terrific scene with them either.

Bob

"Richard Dault" <rda### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| > On somewhat the same subject:  anyone ever pass around a saved photon map
| > before?  Just curious if that's easy to do, and not only that if there
| would
| > be unforeseen problems from one computer to the next.
|
| Ever see the size of those suckers?  The last one I did for the diamond was
| 137MB (about 4 million photons if I remember correctly), although I'm sure
| they compress well and it might be worth the time saving if you have a fast
| enough connection.

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